Philomena

A mother her son and a fifty-year search

Philomena

A mother her son and a fifty-year search
Martin Sixsmith
Electronic Audio - 2013

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 separatio

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Auteur principal: Sixsmith, Martin
Autres auteurs: Curless, John
Format: Électronique Audio
Langue:English
Publié: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2013.
Édition:Unabridged.
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Accès en ligne:Click here for information and access to this electronic book. You will be leaving Spokane Public Library's web site.

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