1980년대 아일랜드를 배경으로 하는 역사 소설. 막달레나 수용소 문제를 다룬다.
He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.