Prisoner of the State by Lily Arthur

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/92612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prisoner of the State Author: Lily Arthur Narrator: Ella James Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins Release date: 04-24-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: At sixteen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between the women's liberation movement of the ‘swinging sixties and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in the notorious Holy Cross Home for ‘wayward' girls in Wooloowin, Brisbane as a ‘prisoner' of the state. Lily spent her entire pregnancy performing unpaid labour its infamous Magdalene Laundry.