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Emma Donoghue

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October 24, 1969 in Dublin, Ireland

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Emma is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue. She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. Since the age of 23, Donoghue has earned her living as a full-time writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their son and daughter.


Average rating: 3.92 · 123,216 ratings · 19,510 reviews · 28 distinct works
Room
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 111,515 ratings — published 2010 — 59 editions
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Slammerkin
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 4,508 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions
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Kissing the Witch: Old Tale...
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,397 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions
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The Sealed Letter
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 967 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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Landing
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 715 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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Life Mask
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions
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Hood
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions
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Stir-Fry
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 447 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions
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Touchy Subjects: Stories
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
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"Very important, actually. With my first novel (STIRFRY) I changed my mind just before publication, and changed the ending dramatically, but these days...more "
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“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
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“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
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“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”
Emma Donoghue, Room

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Novel Ladies: Sue's 2010 reading log 26 32 Dec 12, 2009 09:22pm  
GR-101: Book Appr...: Marilyn's Reading Log-2010 17 6 Jan 17, 2010 11:15am  
Goodreads Malaysia: Senarai Panjang Hadiah Booker 2010 8 31 Aug 01, 2010 09:58pm  
"The BB's": OCTOBER! 2010 Bitches Choice Nominations 19 20 Sep 14, 2010 07:59pm  
Bookish: 19September10 25 29 Sep 20, 2010 06:41pm  
Coffee Talk: Septemter 16 - September 30. 2010 279 27 Oct 01, 2010 09:53am  
Novel Ladies: NYT Bestseller List - September 24th, 2010 3 7 Oct 01, 2010 01:41pm  
Novel Ladies: NYT Bestseller List - October 1st, 2010 3 6 Oct 01, 2010 02:20pm  
44771 Q & A with Emma Donoghue — 381 members — last activity Jul 24, 2011 05:53pm
The winner of the 2010 Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction is answering questions about ROOM, the gripping story of a mother and son held captive in an...more



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