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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Sixsmith, Martin.     Subjects     Lee, Philomena.     Hess, Michael A., 1952-1995     Philomena (Motion picture) -- Sources.     Teenage mothers -- Ireland -- Biography.     Unmarried mothers -- Ireland -- Biography.     Illegitimate children -- Ireland -- Biography.     Adoption -- Ireland -- Biography.     Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.     Politicians -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sixsmith, Martin.       by title:      Philomena : a mother...       by call number:      306.874 L479s     Search the Web     Sixsmith, Martin.     Lee, Philomena.     Hess, Michael A., 1952-1995     Philomena (Motion picture) -- Sources.     Teenage mothers -- Ireland -- Biography.     Unmarried mothers -- Ireland -- Biography.     Illegitimate children -- Ireland -- Biography.     Adoption -- Ireland -- Biography.     Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.     Politicians -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

Philomena : a mother, her son and a fifty-year search / Martin Sixsmith. by Sixsmith, Martin. Macmillan, 2009. Call #: 306.874 L479s Subjects Lee, Philomena.   Hess, Michael A., 1952-1995   Philomena (Motion picture) -- Sources.   Teenage mothers -- Ireland -- Biography.   Unmarried mothers -- Ireland -- Biography.   Illegitimate children -- Ireland -- Biography.   Adoption -- Ireland -- Biography.   Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.   Politicians -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781447245223 (2013 Pan Books pbk.) 9780330518369 (2010 Pan pbk.) 9780230744271 (pbk.) Alternate title:  Lost child of Philomena Lee : a mother, her son and a fifty-year search Description:  452 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes:  Also published under the title: "Philomena : a mother, her son and a fifty-year search." "The book that inspired the movie "Philomena". Summary:  When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic. Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and a leading Republican official in the Reagan and Bush administrations. But he was a gay man in a homophobic party where he had to conceal not only his sexuality but, eventually, the fact that he had AIDS. With little time left, he returned to Ireland and the convent where he was born: his desperate quest to find his mother before he died left a legacy that was to unfold with unexpected consequences for all involved. The tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. With a foreword by Judi Dench, a compelling and deeply moving narrative of human love and loss, both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.874 L479s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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