1918. Trois jours à Dublin, ravagé par la guerre et une terrible épidémie. Trois jours aux côtés de Julia Power, infirmière dans un service réservé aux femmes enceintes touchées par la maladie. Partout, la confusion règne, et le gouvernement semble impuissant à protéger sa population. À l'aube de ses 30 ans, alors qu'à l'hôpital on manque de tout, Julia se retrouve seule pour gérer ses patientes en quarantaine. Elle ne dispose que de l'aide d'une jeune orpheline bénévole, Bridie Sweeney, et des rares mais précieux conseils du Dr Kathleen Lynn - membre du Sinn Féin recherchée par la police. Dans une salle exiguë où les âmes comme les corps sont mis à nu, toutes les trois s'acharnent dans leur défi à la mort, tandis que leurs patientes tentent de conserver les forces nécessaires pour donner la vie. Un huis clos dont Julia sortira transformée, ébranlée dans ses certitudes et ses repères.
Ce livre fait partie de la sélection littérature étrangère du Grand Prix des Lecteurs Pocket 2023.
Sur le point de fêter ses cinq ans, Jack a les préoccupations des enfants de son âge. Ou presque. Il ne pense qu'à jouer et à essayer de comprendre le monde qui l'entoure, comptant sur sa mère pour répondre à ses questions. Celle-ci occupe dans sa vie une place immense, d'autant plus qu'il vit seul avec elle dans la même pièce, depuis sa naissance. Il y a bien les visites du Grand Méchant Nick, mais la mère fait tout pour éviter à Jack le moindre contact avec lui. Jusqu'au jour où elle comprend qu'elle ne peut pas continuer à entretenir l'illusion d'une vie ordinaire. Elle va alors tout risquer pour permettre à Jack de s'enfuir.Room, c'est un sinistre fait divers revisité par Gulliver et par Alice, mais c'est aussi une histoire de survie qui célèbre l'indéfectible pouvoir de l'amour maternel. André Clavel, L'Express.Un roman d'une douceur renversante. Emily Barnett, Les Inrockuptibles.
In 7th C, Ireland, three men set sail to a bird-thick island to find God. EmmaDonoghue combines pressure-cooker intensity + radical isolation, to stunning effect. What is Divine Grace? Purity of soul? Virtue? Not what they think.>
Now a major new Netflix film starring Florence Pugh and Ciaran Hinds An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue''s The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of ''fasting girls'' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - is a psychological thriller about a child''s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don''t have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. '' 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'' Audrey Niffenegger ''One of the most profoundly affecting books I''ve read in a long time'' John Boyne ''Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language . . . Room is unlike anything I''ve ever read before'' Anita Shreve '' Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can''t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it''s potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory'' Michael Cunningham
''An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel'' The Times The Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . . Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julia''s regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of 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 tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss. Guardian ''s ''Brilliant Books to Transport You This Summer'' Cosmopolitan ''s ''Best Books to Read This Summer'' Stylist ''s ''Best Summer Reads''
Le départ, la route, l'arrivée : les trois parties de ce recueil de nouvelles marquent les étapes du voyage, de l'errance, de l'exil. Par-delà les époques, l'auteur nous entraîne du Massachusets puritain au New Jersey révolutionnaire, passant par la Louisiane belliqueuse, jusqu'aux bas-fonds sordides de Toronto. Immigrés à la recherche d'une vie meilleure, orphelins transférés, esclaves en quête de liberté, voleurs de grands chemins..., tous sont en mouvement, que ce soit pour partir, arriver, ou découvrir de nouveaux lieux, loin de leurs identités familiale et nationale. Mais dans ces « fictions historiques » (l'auteur a effectué un véritable travail d'historienne), tout n'est pas dramatique, et l'errance peut mener aussi à la découverte de soi.
Emma Donoghue imagine les vies qui se cachent entre les lignes des livres d'histoire, les sentiments derrière les dates, les gens derrière les chiffres. Libération.
Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, The Wonder-inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the 16th century and the 20th-is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us.
Le rencontre entre Sile, une Irlandaise bobo et Jude, une Canadienne à l'âme bucolique fut aussi fortuite que rocambolesque et aurait dû rester sans suite. Mais la curiosité s'en est mêle et, de lettres en e-mails, de longues conversations en brêves retrouvailles, leur histoire va peu à peu prendre forme, jusqu'à ce que la distance devienne insupportable.
Laquelle des deux femmes sera prête à tout quitter pour mettre fin à la séparation et de quel côté de l'Atlantique leur avenir va-t-il s'écrire ?
B>A major film starring Brie Larson/b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize/b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Orange Prize/b>Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.
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B>Bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue returns with her new masterpiece, Akin, a brilliant tale of love, loss and family. /b>Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hache to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another, and find they are more akin than they knew. Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a young boy who unpick their painful stories and embark on writing a new one together.
Frog Music is a wonderfully evocative novel of intrigue and murder from Emma Donoghue, the author of the international bestseller Room, an emotive and powerful novel that was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker and Orange Prizes.
From the bestselling author of ROOM comes a delicious tale of secrets, betrayal and forbidden love.
After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has become a successful woman of business and a pioneer in the British Women's Movement. But, for all her independence of mind, Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion and finds herself drawn into aiding Helen's obsessive affair with a young army officer.
When the Vice-Admiral seizes the children and sues for divorce, the women's friendship unravels amid accusations of adultery and counter-accusations of cruelty and attempted rape, as well as a mysterious 'sealed letter' that could destroy more than one life . . .
Based on blow-by-blow newspaper reports of the 1864 Codrington Divorce, The Sealed Letter, full of sparkling characters and wicked dialogue, is a thought-provoking mystery and gripping drama of friends, lovers and marriage.
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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
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime.
In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds meet - an orphan heiress, sent from India to England at six, and a gifted troublemaker. Anne Lister would go on to be a gifted diarist, famous the world over. But in the early nineteenth century she met Eliza Raine, someone who would change her life for ever.
Evocative, captivating and wholly unique, Learned By Heart is the dazzling new novel from acclaimed and bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
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Meet the Lotterys: a unique and diverse family featuring four parents, seven kids and five pets - all living happily together in their big old house, Camelottery. Nine-year-old Sumac is looking forward to a long summer of fun. But everything is turned upside down when their grandpa comes to stay. How will Sumac and her family manage with another person to add to their hectic lives?
'Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before, and Astray is no exception. There is such a deep and compassionate imagination at work in every story in this collection that Astray feels almost like an act of clairvoyance.' Ann Patchett, Orange prize-winning author of Bel Canto
From the author of 'Slammerkin', a gripping historical novel about three famous Londoners - an artist, an actress and an aristocrat - based on a true scandal of 18th century London.
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world
BITCH. SCOLD. HARRIDAN. For centuries past, and all across the world DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. There are words for a certain kind of woman FURY. HARPY. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood HUSSY. SIREN. VIXEN. Words that tell a story In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up these words and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago.
BITCH. SCOLD. HARRIDAN. For centuries past, and all across the world DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. There are words for a certain kind of woman FURY. HARPY. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood HUSSY. SIREN. VIXEN. Words that tell a story In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up these words and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago, the international publisher of women.