Philomena - The True Story Of A Mother And The Son She Had To Give
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Details: When she fell 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 & 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 & a leading Republican official in the Reagan & 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 & 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. Philomena is the tale of a mother & a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic & of the secrets they were forced to keep. With a foreword by Judi Dench, Martin Sixsmith's book is a compelling & deeply moving narrative of human love & loss, both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive. Ideal for: People who enjoy reading true stories. A tragic story of a mother loosing her much loved son. This paperback has 452 pages & measures: 19.7 x 13.1 x 3cm