Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue has made a name for herself overseas as the host of a literary talk show on Irish TV, and is an established playwright whose work has been performed in Dublin and Cambridge. She is the editor of "Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship and Desire, " and the author of novels “Hood” and “Stir-Fry.” She currently lives in Cambridge, England.
Emma Donoghue's Books
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Room
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the p…
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recommends Room
I loved that it was in the child’s point of view.
Audrey Niffenegger recommends Room
Emma Donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it’s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.
Sandra Gulland recommends Room
This novel takes on a very difficult subject and renders it beautiful, without diminishing its horror. The voice of the boy is authentic and enchanting. I can’t recommend this novel enough.
Mike Cunningham recommends Room
(One of my favorites of 2010 is) Room, which concerns a young woman and her five-year-old son who are kept captive by a psychopath in a single room. It’s amazing what Donoghue is able to do within that tiny physical space. If we were worried (and I don’t think we should be) about a lack of originality and ambition in contemporary novels, here’s one that conjures an enormous story out of simple, even miniature, circumstances.
Melissa Foster recommends Room
This book has a unique premise, but what really stayed with me was the strength and unselfishness of the mother, and her ability to create a world in which her son could feel safe. A must read.
Annelise Ryan recommends Room
Told from the point of view of its five-year-old protagonist, Jack, Donoghue’s ROOM is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. It’s a beautifully written story of maternal bonds, familial love, small heroics, and the struggles imposed when one’s private life is put up for public perusal and judgment. A true page-turner.
Douglas Clegg recommends Room
Reading the novel Room by Emma Donoghue right now, recommended by novelist Ann Haywood Leal. So far, it’s great…and disturbing.
