The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search by Martin Sixsmith

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search

Martin Sixsmith

452 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative sad medium-paced
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When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty year...

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