Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

New York Times Bestseller

The heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years and the basis for the major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan

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 exposé 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 11/06/2013
ISBN: 9780143124726
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/22/2013
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2013
Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 120
Shelf Awareness 11/22/2013