Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search by Judi Dench, Martin Sixsmith

Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

Judi Dench, Martin Sixsmith

15 hours, 30 minutes first pub 2009 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative sad medium-paced

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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked a...

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reflective 55%
hopeful 20%
inspiring 20%
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mysterious 5%
tense 5%

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