Philomena
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788856635591 (8856635593)
Publish date: December 2013
Publisher: Piemme
Pages no: 460
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Parenting,
Religion,
Politics,
Ireland,
Adoption
I picked this book up at the library mainly because I'd seen snippets of the movie and was curious. I don't think the movie is anything like the book, though - the latter is mainly a reconstruction of Philomena's son's life, after he was adopted, with very little of Philomena in it save for the fir...
bookshelves: film-only, winter-20132014, published-2009, biography, nonfiction, true-grime Read from February 18 to 23, 2014 When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent of Roscrea, Co. Limerick, to be looked after as a 'fallen woman' and at the...
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