The Lost Child: A Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away by Martin Sixsmith, Martin Sixsmith
The Lost Child: A Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away
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Martin Sixsmith, Martin Sixsmith
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The Lost Child: A Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away

Martin Sixsmith, Martin Sixsmith

464 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 h...

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