New York Times Bestseller The heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years and the basis for the major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan 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 exposé 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.
Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
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Author: Sixsmith, Martin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143124726
Details:
Author: Sixsmith, Martin
Brand: Penguin Books
Color: Multicolor
Edition: Media tie-in
Features:
- Used Book in Good Condition
Binding: Paperback
Format: Illustrated
Number Of Pages: 420
Release Date: 06-11-2013
Part Number: 21357840
Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780143124726
