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The Pull of the Stars was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, a Barnes & Noble Book Club choice, a Reader's Digest Book Club Pick and an Australian Women's Weekly Book Club Pick as well as an Oprah Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 and a Guardian, Telegraph, NPR, CBC, Globe and Mail, Cosmopolitan and Chapters Indigo Best Book of 2020. The unabridged audiobook read by Emma Lowe won an AudioFile ...
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The Pull of the Stars was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick,...
- The Wonder
Sandra McKenna, 'Women's Bodies in Contemporary Literature:...
- Room
Room(London: Picador; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; New...
- Haven
Haven (New York: Little Brown; Toronto: HarperCollins...
- Hood
Constance Bracewell, "The Naming of the Screw:...
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This is Donoghue's eighth novel and twelfth book of fiction,...
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Stir-fry (1994) My first novel, Stir-fry is a coming-of-age...
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Life Mask (New York: Harcourt; London: Virago, 2004), my...
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Jul 21, 2020 · March 23, 2021. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (author), Emma Lowe (narrator) It's 1918 Dublin, the city and the country ravaged by war, poverty, and the Great Flu. Very few people aren't suffering from the flu or the after effects of the flu and Nurse Julia Power's inner city hospital is running on a skeleton crew, with not enough ...
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‘Room‘ is certainly the author’s best-known novel, in no small part due to the film of the same name the book inspired. This novel tells the story of a young boy named Jack and his mother, who are held captive in a single room. The novel is narrated by Jack, who is five years old at the time the novel’s events are taking place. His understanding of...
‘Frog Music‘ tells the story of a 19th-century murder case of a frog catcher. It is based on a true story and was published in April 2014. The book takes place in 1876 in San Francisco while the city is dealing with the smallpox epidemic. The bulk of the story takes place after a young woman is shot dead, and her surviving friend risks everything t...
Set in rural Ireland in the 1850s, ‘The Wonder‘ follows an English nurse named Lib Wright, who is sent to observe a young girl who has supposedly gone without food for months. The book is a haunting exploration of faith, mystery, and the limits of human endurance. A film inspired by the book came out at the end of 2022 and was directed by Sebastián...
‘Hood‘ was another early novel that was published in 1995. This is similar in many ways to the author’s first novel,‘Stir Fry.‘ But this fiction novel follows a young woman dealing with the aftermath of her girlfriend’s death. The book takes some of its inspiration from James Joyce’s famous novel ‘Ulysses.’ When the book opens, it’s been a week sin...
‘Stir Fry‘ was Emma Donoghue’s first novel. The book was completed in 1994 and is a unique coming-of-age novel following an Irish woman. The book was a finalist for several literary works and helped establish Emma Donoghue’s reputation early on in her career.
‘The Pull of the Stars‘was written in 2020 and was long-listed for the Giller Prize the same year. It takes place during the influenza pandemic in 1918 in Dublin, Ireland. The protagonist is a nurse named Julia Power, who struggles to get through day-to-day life at a busy hospital in the center of the city. She meets with life-changing characters, ...
The is a collection of 13 stories that were inspired by fairytales. She uses classic characters that almost every reader is going to be familiar with and changes their stories in radical ways that reveal far more about who they are. The stories featured in this book include “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” and “The Little Mermaid.” Each story features a...
‘The Sealed Letter‘ was published in 2009 and based on a real-life scandal in Victorian England. This novel tells the story of a divorce case that exposes a web of secrets and lies. It is a gripping historical thriller that explores the role of women in society and the tension between public and private life. The book follows Miss Emily Faithfull, ...
‘Haven‘ is a recent novel published in 2022 that takes place on Skellig Michael. It follows a few characters who embark on a dangerous quest to discover an island where they believe they can explore their faith in full.
Aug 20, 2010 · November 17, 2021. Room, Emma DonoghueJack lives with his Ma in Room, a secured single-room outbuilding containing a small kitchen, a basic bathroom, a wardrobe, a bed, and a TV set. Because it is all he has ever known, Jack believes that only Room and the things it contains (including himself and Ma) are "real."
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Feb 22, 2016 · Devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a luminous portrait of a boundless maternal love. It has sold more than two million copies, was a number one bestseller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. Few books have reached modern classic status so swiftly.
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Jul 6, 2021 · Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Room sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays: Kissing the Witch; Don't Die Wondering; Trespasses; Ladies and Gentlemen; I Know My Own Heartby. Emma Donoghue(Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions. Want to Readsaving….
