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Philomena

a Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search
Jun 16, 2017JeremyHR rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I loved the movie, but the book is very disappointing. It's not just that the book spends very little time on Philomela, as others have noted. What bothered me most was that 80% of the book consisted of dialogue that was clearly made up out of whole cloth, much of it between two characters who are both dead. Even when one may still be alive, the question "How does the author know what these two people said to each other?" is never answered. The line between fiction and non-fiction gets blurred so much, and Sixsmith takes so many liberties with what he thinks the people probably said and did, that I ended feeling like he was dishonoring the main characters instead of honoring them.