Philomena (Movie Tie-In) - A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search (Paperback, Media tie-in)

"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 expose 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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	November 2013
Authors:	Martin Sixsmith
Foreword by:	Dame Judi Dench
Dimensions:	215 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	420
Edition:	Media tie-in
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-312472-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > Fiction > Promotions > Books on Netflix
LSN:	0-14-312472-2
Barcode:	9780143124726

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