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"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 exposâe 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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Políticos, Abogados, Padre e hijo, Materiales en español, Parent and child, Politicians, Adoption, Hijos ilegítimos, Adopción, Illegitimate children, Teenage mothers, Biografía, Lawyers, Unmarried mothers, Madres solteras, Madres adolescentes, Biography, Adolescent parents, Ireland, biography, Politicians, united states, Lawyers, biography, Women, biography, Birthparents, IdentificationPlaces
United States, Irlanda, Estados Unidos, IrelandShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Philomena: a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search
2015, Penguin Books
in English
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Philomena: Eine Mutter sucht ihren Sohn
Feb 10, 2014, Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg.
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3548375588 9783548375588
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Philomena: la conmovedora historia real de una madre y el hijo al que tuvo que renunciar
2014
in Spanish
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1622638956 9781622638956
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Philomena: a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search
2013, WF Howes Ltd
in English
1471246744 9781471246746
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Philomena: The Poignant True Story of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away
2013, Pan Macmillan, Pan Books, Pan
in English
1447245229 9781447245223
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"First published in Great Britain as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2009."
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'Philomena' is 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. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.
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