Philomena: a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search
(Book)
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New York : Penguin Books, 2013.
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Book
Physical Desc:
vi, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status:
1 copy on order.
Description
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: 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.
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East Hampton Adult Biography
B LEE
Lost and Paid
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East Haddam/Rathbun A Adult Nonfiction
BIO LEE
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East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction
B LEE, PHILOMENA (Sixsmith)
On Shelf
Essex Adult Biography
B LEE
On Shelf
Guilford Adult Biography
BIOG LEE, PHILOMENA
On Shelf
Hamden/Miller Adult Biography
B/LEE
On Shelf
Hamden/Whitneyville Adult Biographies
B/LEE
On Shelf
Meriden Adult Biography
BIO LEE, P
On Shelf
Middlefield/Coe Adult Biography
BIO Lee
On Shelf
North Haven Adult Biography
Biography Lee, Philomena
Due Oct 2, 2025
Preston Adult Nonfiction
B LEE
On Shelf
Stony Creek/Willoughby Wallace Adult Non-Fiction
BIO LEE
On Shelf
Wallingford Adult Biographies
B LEE SI
On Shelf
West Haven Louis Piantino New Adult Biographies
NEW B LEE [PHILOMENA]
On Shelf
West Haven Main Adult Biography
B LEE [PHILOMENA]
On Shelf
West Haven Ora Mason Adult Biography
B LEE [PHILOMENA]
On Shelf
Westbrook Adult Non-Fiction
B LEE
On Shelf
Woodbridge Adult Biography
B LEE (PHILOMENA)
On Shelf
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Acton Public Library On Order
ON ORDER
On Order
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780143124726, 0143124722, 9780143126805, 0143126806
Notes
General Note
"First published in Great Britain as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009" -- Title page verso.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Sixsmith, M. (2013). Philomena: a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sixsmith, Martin. 2013. Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Sixsmith, Martin, Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search. Penguin Books, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sixsmith, Martin. Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search. Penguin Books, 2013.
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