Lost Child Of Philomena Lee A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

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  • 21 mei 2010
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When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary 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. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic. Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and a leading Republican official in the Reagan and Bush administrations. But he was a gay man in a homophobic party where he had to conceal not only his sexuality but, eventually, the fact that he had AIDs. With little time left, he returned to Ireland and the convent where he was born: his desperate quest to find his mother before he died left a legacy that was to unfold with unexpected consequences for all involved. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.

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  • A STORY FOR THE HEART

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    Touching story and politically interesting too, a good read and well written!!
    For me, the most devastating part of the book lay in the decision by the nuns to hide the search of each participant from each other. While finding my birth mother is not a search I’ve ever undertaken, I felt the sense of urgency Michael must have had about him especially as he tried to trace his roots before succumbing to complications of AIDS. For him to die, not knowing that his mother searched for him from the day he was taken from her was a moral tragedy that could have been averted. I can only imagine how shattered Philomena must have felt upon realizing that, not only had her son been searching for her, but that he was buried in the very place she had turned to for answers. Leaving aside the religious issues involved, I found it difficult to fathom how anyone might have thought that it was a good idea to act in that manner, and how either party benefited from being separated from each other. Even if they had only a few years before Michael’s death, that brief time could have given answers and comfort to both mother and son.

    Martin Sixsmith impressively conveys the tenor of a place and era in which religion was allowed to dominate the state!!

    Het is een hartverscheurend, ontroerend verhaal ....Al met al is en blijft Philomena’s verhaal een boeiend, ontroerend en vooral heftig verhaal dat absoluut verteld moest worden!!

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