Philomena
the true story of a mother and the son she had to give away (film tie-in edition)
$33.28
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2013
Summary
A Mother’s Unyielding Hope: The Story of Philomena
“The touching story of a mother’s fifty-year search for her son.” - Sunday Times
In 1952 Ireland, teenage Philomena Lee found herself pregnant and cast aside to a convent. For three years, she nurtured her son, only to have him taken by the Church and sold for adoption in America, a fate shared by countless others.
Philomena’s son grew up to become a prominent Washington lawyer and a Republican official unde…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447245223 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447245229 |
| Author: | Martin Sixsmith |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Edition: | Film tie-in ed |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 133mm x 33mm |
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About The Author
Martin Sixsmith
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 British Government as Director of Communications. He is now a writer, presenter and journalist. His previous books are The Litvinenko File, Moscow Coup: The Death of the Soviet System and two novels, Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh.
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