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In 1979, O ' Connor left her mother and went to live with her father and his new wife.

However, at the age of 15, her shoplifting and truancy led to her being placed in a Magdalene Asylum, the Grianán Training Centre run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity.

In some ways, she thrived there, especially in the development of her writing and music, but she also chafed under the imposed conformity.

Unruly students there were sometimes sent to sleep in the adjoining nursing home, an experience of which she later commented, " I have never — and probably will never — experience such panic and terror and agony over anything.