Books
by Emma Donoghue
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Room |
Room is the world in which five year old Jack lives with Ma. The only key belongs to Old Nick. There're a few books and a TV but Jack knows everything outside Room is just make-believe until one day Ma begins to talk of escape . . . Told in Jack's voice, his innocence and the love he and Ma share shine through, turning what could have been an unbearable story into something moving and uplifting.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 60 Spring 2011) |
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The Sealed Letter |
Based on contemporary accounts and historical research, after a slow start, the novel gathers momentum as Donoghue fleshes out the characters and evokes the courtroom drama of a notorious Victorian divorce case between Vice-Admiral Codrington and his wife, Helen. Unwittingly her friend Emily Faithful, an early feminist, becomes embroiled in the drama which involves assignations, deceits, prejudiced witnesses and the appearance of a mysterious sealed letter all of which add to the tension.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 64 Spring 2012) |
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