Martin Sixsmith著 『PHILOMENA』(Penguin Books)。
『Philomena』(Penguin Books)・発売日:2013年・著者:Martin Sixsmith, Judi Dench・出版社:PENGUIN GROUP・タイトル:Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search (Movie Tie-In)・発行年:2013年・サイズ:Paperback・ページ数:448・言語:English・ISBNコード:9780143124726New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 yearsWhen 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 years later, Philomena decided to find him.Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena’s son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother.A gripping exposé told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation. 『The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search』のムービーTIE-IN改題版。映画版を観たのを機に再読開始。