{"product_id":"9780143124726","title":"Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search (Movie Tie-in)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow 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 years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gripping exposé told with novelistic intrigue, \u003ci\u003ePhilomena\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010579775728,"sku":"9780143124726","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143124726_p0.jpg?v=1763656852","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143124726","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}