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Author:

Sixsmith, Martin, author.

Title:

Philomena : a mother, her son, and a fifty year search / Martin Sixsmith ; foreword by Dame Judi Dench.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publisher:

Recorded Books,

Copyright Date:

p2013

Description:

13 audio discs (approximately 15 hours, 30 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Lee, Philomena.
Hess, Michael A.,--1952-1995.
Teenage mothers--Ireland--Biography.
Unmarried mothers--Ireland--Biography.
Illegitimate children--Ireland--Biography.
Lawyers--Biography.
Politicians--Biography.
Adopted children--Biography.
Adoption--Great Britain.
Parent and child--Biography.
Mother and child--Biography.
Birthmothers--Identification.

Other Authors:

Dench, Judi, 1934-, author of foreword.
Curless, John, narrator.

Other Titles:

Lost child of Philomena Lee.

Notes:

First published in print in Great Britain as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009. "The poignant true story of a mother and the son she had to give away"--Container. "Now a major motion picture"--Container. Performance by John Curless.

Summary:

Fifty years after giving her son up for adoption, Irishwoman Philomena Lee decides to find him, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, her son, a lawyer in the first Bush administration, struggles to find his mother.

ISBN:

1470392801
9781470392802

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

D3PA284 -- Colesburg Public Library (Colesburg)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)