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Philomena (Movie Tie-In)

By Martin Sixsmith

Philomena (Movie Tie-In) Politics & Society

Philomena (Movie Tie-In)

By Martin Sixsmith

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New York Times Bestseller Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
420
Release Date:
2013-11-06
Publication Date:
2013-11-06
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0143124722
ISBN13:
9780143124726
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
348 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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