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

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Fifty years after giving her son up for adoption, Irishwoman Philomena Lee decides to find him, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, her son, a lawyer in the first Bush administration, struggles to find his mother.

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Adoption
Adoption -- Ireland -- Biography
Audiobooks
Hess, Michael A
Hess, Michael A., -- 1952-1995
Illegitimate children
Illegitimate children -- Ireland -- Biography
Lawyers
Lawyers -- United States -- Biography
Lee, Philomena
Parent and child
Parent and child -- Biography
Politicians
Politicians -- United States -- Biography
Teenage mothers
Teenage mothers -- Ireland -- Biography
Unmarried mothers
Unmarried mothers -- Ireland -- Biography

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Dench, Judi,1934-author of introduction, etc
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Curless, John,narrator
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Last Grouping Update2025-02-17 05:31:45AM
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Parent and child -- Biography
Politicians -- United States -- Biography
Teenage mothers -- Ireland -- Biography
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