![]() In this masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to. Sarah Lyall, New York Times A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner. By the New York Times bestselling author of Room A small Irish village is mystified by what appears to be a miracle but may actually be murder in this 'fine, fact-based, old-school page-turner' (Stephen King). Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itself Like The Turn of the Screw, the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place. The setting for Emma Donoghues novel is the Irish Midlands about seven years after the end of the potatoe famine in Ireland. ![]() Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tendernessĪudrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife Fascinating. She migrates between genres, writing for screen, stage, and radio, as well as historical and contemporary novels and short stories. ![]()
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