Dirty Laundry (2022) by Lily Arthur tells the story of a pregnant, unmarried 17-year-old being sent to a notorious Madalene Laundry in Woolowin, Brisbane, Australia.

The year was 1967 and so Lily Arthur was, as she writes “caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'.”

Lily’s son was put up for adoption.

Lily Arthur later became an activist, joining with other women in Australia whose babies had been forced from them into adoption. She includes some of this story in her book, and concludes with the national inquiry and national apology by then Prime Minister Julia Gillard, https://www.ag.gov.au/families-and-marriage/national-apology-forced-adoptions