A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the new masterpiece from bestselling author Emma Donoghue
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (Frog Music, Slammerkin, Life Mask, Landing, The Sealed Letter and The Wonder) to the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes.
Highly emotional but never sentimental.
*Vogue*
Akin offers a subtle, entertaining portrait of the relationship—and
friction—between age and youth.
*The Economist*
An important, touching novel that stays with you long after you’re
done reading it.
*Independent*
Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has
delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making
their way in the world.
*Woman & Home*
A highly enjoyable novel’
*Daily Mail*
Absorbing. I loved the growing relationship between the two.
*Prima*
Sweet, tender and defiantly unsentimental, this is a sad, funny
look at how flawed, fragile people develop a sense of
belonging.
*Psychologies*
A delicate and moving reminder of the way in which our human
stories are made from practical choices – often in life as well as
in literature.
*Harper's Bazaar*
Heartwarming and humourous.
*Radio Times*
A poignant and hopeful tale
*Woman Magazine*
Praise for Room:
Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into
horror and horror into tenderness
*Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife*
One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long
time
*John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas*
Absorbing, truthful and beautiful . . . it is a kind of sustained
poem in praise of motherhood and parental love
*Observer*
Sophisticated in outlook and execution . . . Utterly plausible,
vividly described
*New York Times*
Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably
bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of
fiction
*Irish Times*
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