Martin Sixsmith

Film w kinach od 21 lutego 2014 roku! Irlandia, rok 1952. Nastoletnia Filomena Lee zachodzi w przypadkową ciążę, rodzina wysyła ją do klasztoru w miejscowości Roscrea, w hrabstwie Limerick, do miejsca gdzie zakonnice "opiekują się upadłymi kobietami". Kiedy chłopiec, którego urodziła, kończy trzy lata, zostaje odebrany matce, "sprzedany" przez...

Russia is a country of contradictions, a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a thousand years, and how it can help us understand its often baffling behaviour at home and abroad....

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...