Philomena

A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty-Year Search (Film Tie-in Edition)

Martin Sixsmith

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Pan
01 November 2013

Biography; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; Adoption

"The book that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.

""The touching story of a mother's fifty-year search for her son."" Sunday Times

When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent 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.

Philomena's son 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.

PRAISE FOR PHILOMENA

""The extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman . . . Philomena's tale is special. . . . It reveals a remarkable human being with astonishing fortitude and a truly humbling willingness to forgive"" Judi Dench, from the Foreword

""A searingly poignant account of forced adoption and its consequences."" Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

""Riveting . . . Sixsmith chillingly recounts . . . this mother-and-son saga."" Publishers Weekly

""Heartbreaking . . . a story that needed to be told."" The Independent"

By: Martin Sixsmith
Imprint: Pan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Unabridged
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781447245223
ISBN 10: 1447245229
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 01 November 2013
Recommended Age: 16
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Sixsmith was born in Cheshire and educated at Oxford, Harvard and the Sorbonne. From 1980 to 1997 he worked for the BBC as the Corporation's correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. From 1997 to 2002 he worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary first to Harriet Harman, then to Alistair Darling and finally to Stephen Byers. He is now a writer, presenter and journalist. He is the author of Philomena, as well as the novels Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh, and the non-fiction books Moscow Coup: The Death of the Soviet System and The Litvinenko File: The True Story of a Death Foretold. He lives in London.