Philomena.

by Martin Sixsmith. ISBN: 9781447245223

How a major feature film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan

As a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee fell pregnant and was sent to a convent - a "fallen woman".

For three years after her son was born she cared for him there. Then the church took him away and sold him. like countless others, for adoption in America.

This is the story of Philomena and her search for the son she never stopped loving. It is a tale of lives scarred by hypocrisy and secrecy, a compelling narrative of human love and loss, heartbreak, yet ultimately redemptive.

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

"Norton six minutes broke their notes into a woman's grief with restraint an