Deze auteur verkent complexe menselijke relaties en de thema's vrijheid en identiteit door middel van meeslepende verhalen. Hun werken, die zowel hedendaagse als historische settings bestrijken, duiken vaak in de donkerdere aspecten van de menselijke psyche en de veerkracht van de menselijke geest tegenover tegenspoed. Met een scherp oog voor detail en een diepgaand begrip van de menselijke natuur creëren ze onvergetelijke personages en meeslepende plots die de lezers nog lang na de laatste bladzijde bijblijven.
De onzekere eerstejaarsstudente Maria verhuist van het platteland naar Dublin om daar te gaan studeren. Ze vindt er een kamer bij de vriendinnen Ruth en Jaël, die haar hartelijk verwelkomen en haar wegwijs proberen te maken in de grote stad. Langzaam gaat het bij Maria dagen dat de relatie tussen Ruth en Jaël een andere is dan ze aanvankelijk dacht. En hoe meer ze begrijpt, hoe meer ze ontdekt over haar eigen seksualiteit.
In een reeks korte verhalen over curieuze momenten in de Britse geschiedenis doet Emma Donoghue lang vergeten schandalen, brutale mystificaties en persoonlijke tragedies herleven. Kunstenaars, gifmengers, gravinnen,travestieten, dominees en revolutionairen: ze komen allemaal aan bod. De wederkomst van de Heer wordt in Schotland verkondigd; een miniatuurmeisje eindigt als een piepklein skeletje in een Londens museum; en de achttiende-eeuwse dame Mary Toft overtuigt heel Engeland ervan dat ze bevallen is van een konijn... Een wonderbaarlijke verzameling van waargebeurde, haast ongelofelijke verhalen. Emma Donoghue is een Ierse romancier, toneelschrijfster en historica. Van haar verschenen eerder Geroerd, verlies, Een kus voor de heks en Lichtekooi.
Het is Jacks verjaardag., hij wordt al vijf. Jack leeft met Mam in Kamer, waarvan de deur op slot zit. Kamer heeft alleen een dakraam en is elf vierkante meter groot. Jack is dol op televisiekijken, Dora de Explorer is zijn vriendin, maar hij weet dat wat hij op televisie ziet niet echt is. Alleen hijzelf is echt, en Mam, en de dingen in Kamer. En Ouwe Nick die 's nachts vaak komt. Dan zit Jack in de kast en kraakt het bed. Op een dag vertelt Mam hem dat er buiten Kamer ook een echte wereld is. Een wereld waarmee Jack na hun ontsnapping zal kennismaken. Kamer is een beklemmende en fascinerende roman die je nooit meer vergeet.
Family celebrations are difficult to organize at the best of times, but when your family is made up of four parents, seven children and one grandfather, they're practically impossible . . . The second warm and funny children's book from international bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews) In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways - loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions - his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack's entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet; as far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world. He shares this world with his mother, with Plant, and tiny Mouse (though Ma isn't a fan and throws a book at Mouse when she sees him). There's TV too, of course - and the cartoon characters he thinks of as his friends - but Jack knows that nothing else he sees on the screen is real. Old Nick, on the other hand, is all too real, but only visits at night - like a bat - when Jack is meant to be asleep and hidden safely in Wardrobe. And only Old Nick has the code to Door, which is otherwise locked...Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother's love for her son, and of a young boy's innocence.Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Room, a book that explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature.
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed. Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA
Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another.First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country.Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.Features an appendix of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue.