Philomena : a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search / Martin Sixsmith ; foreword by Dame Judi Dench.
2015
HQ999.I73 S59 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Philomena : a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search / Martin Sixsmith ; foreword by Dame Judi Dench.
Author
Uniform Title
Lost child of Philomena Lee
ISBN
9780143126805 paperback
0143126806 paperback
0143126806 paperback
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Books, 2015, c2013.
Language
English
Description
vi, 420 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Call Number
HQ999.I73 S59 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
941.7082092 B
Summary
"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a 'fallen woman.' Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena's son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother. A gripping exposâe told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation." -- Publisher's description.
Note
"First published in Great Britain as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2009."
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