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Emma Donoghue is back!!! The story is sensational, intriguing and thought provoking, just like her previous book Room. Why did Anna start fasting and how could she survive four months without food? Lib, an English Nurse who was trained by Florence Nightingale, came yo Ireland to observe the case. And I can't help but being curious throughout the book. Well done, Emma.
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I was excited to read this book because I was awed at how Donoghue captured the voice and viewpoint of a child in Room. She does the same trick here, but the protagonist is much less likeable. Donghue takes the voice of a rather snobbish English woman, a Nightingale-trained nurse who has taken a two week assignment in the midlands of Ireland. She begins sniffing as soon as she gets into the country. Stupid Catholics, Irish, lazy, dirty, ignorant.... Lib Wright is more than horrified to learn tha
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This book has interesting ideas about religion and hope. Some of the emotion and tragedy felt a little manufactured but it still evoked emotional connection. Why is this little girl not eating is the question waiting to be answered.
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