Philomena

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.