Retracing Steps: Steve Coogan's Journey to Find the Story of "Philomena"

Forced to live and work in a convent where the nuns treated their charges as indentured servants, Philomena gave birth to a son, Anthony, in 1952 and ultimately gave him up for adoption to an American couple. Sixsmith's resulting boot, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, is a detailed account of Anthony's ufe, from his birth at the convent in Roscrea to his relocation to America and his subsequent journey from privileged suburban childhood through young adulthood as legal counsel to President George H. W. Bush and a rising star of the Republican Party to his untimely death in the early days of the AIDS crisis.