The Sealed Letter
Title | The Sealed Letter PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780547247762 |
Emily "Fido" Faithfull, a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, is distracted from her cause by the details of her friend's failing marriage and affair with a young army officer, in this drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian style.
Room
Title | Room PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 2017-05-07 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 178682177X |
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
Slammerkin
Title | Slammerkin PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780156007474 |
Mary Saunders' lust for linen, lace and a shiny red ribbon leads her to a life of prostitution.
The Letter
Title | The Letter PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Hughes |
Publisher | Review |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2015-03-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1783069171 |
Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way. đŻď¸ This Number One bestseller has captured thousands of hearts worldwide. Perfect for fans of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. 'A wonderful, uplifting story' Lesley Pearse _______ Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens the letter and reads it - a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever... Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can put things right. On 4th September 1939 he sits down to write the letter he hopes will change his future. It does - in more ways than he can ever imagine... THE LETTER tells the story of two women, born decades apart, whose paths are destined to cross, and how one woman's devastation leads to the other's salvation. _______ Join the hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide who have fallen in love with THE LETTER: 'An amazing, heartwrenching, unforgettable story' 'This beautiful story will bring tears and joy' 'Loved this story !! It kept me totally gripped although I was sobbing in places as well' 'A tale of love and hope with lots of twists and turns. A great story!'
The Pull of the Stars
Title | The Pull of the Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2020-07-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316499048 |
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews). In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsidersâDoctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over 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 once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.
The Spymistress
Title | The Spymistress PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Chiaverini |
Publisher | Dutton |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2014-03-25 |
Genre | Historical fiction |
ISBN | 0142180882 |
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.
Haven
Title | Haven PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2022-08-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1529091179 |
A story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room. 'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.' - Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet In seventh-century Ireland, a priest has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks with him, he travels down the Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a new place of worship. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? âHaven is a beautiful, bold blaze of a bookâ â Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry âBeautiful and timelyâ - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater âSinister, heart-wrenching and beautifully writtenâ â The Times âCombines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effectâ â Margaret Atwood via Twitter âBook of the Yearâ pick in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Irish Post, RTĂ and The Times.