Bibliograph

Philomena, a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search, Martin Sixsmith ; foreword by Dame Judi Dench

Type

Label

Philomena, a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search, Martin Sixsmith ; foreword by Dame Judi Dench

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Philomena

Oclc number

837144464

Responsibility statement

Martin Sixsmith ; foreword by Dame Judi Dench

Sub title

a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search

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

Table Of Contents

Philomena Lee -- Michael A. Hess

Creator