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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sixsmith, Martin.

Standardized Title:

Lost child of Philomena Lee

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lee, Philomena.

Hess, Michael A., 1952-1995.

Hess, Michael A.

Teenage mothers--Ireland--Biography.

Teenage mothers.

Unmarried mothers--Ireland--Biography.

Unmarried mothers.

Illegitimate children--Ireland--Biography.

Illegitimate children.

Lawyers--United States--Biography.

Lawyers.

United States.

Ireland.

Politicians--United States--Biography.

Politicians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York, USA : Penguin Books, Penguin Group, (USA), 2013.

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.

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009."

ISBN:

0143124722

9780143124726

OCLC:

837144464

Publisher Number:

99957818862