SYP Ireland are very excited to be reading Bad Bridget by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick for their next book club, which will be on Zoom.

Written by the creators of the celebrated ‘Bad Bridget’ podcast, ​Bad Bridget has been hailed as a masterpiece of social history and true crime that shows us a fascinating and previously unexplored world. Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety. Others quickly found themselves in trouble – bad trouble, and on an astonishing scale.