Philomena
The True Story of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away (Film Tie-in Edition)
$33.85
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2013
Summary
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 …
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: | 33mm x 133mm x 198mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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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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