Emma Donoghue
All Books By Emma Donoghue
Akin
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Jason Culp
- Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 10, 2019
- Language: English
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3.69(10876 ratings)
Astray
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 30, 2012
- Language: English
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3.57(5695 ratings)
The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue’s stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress.
With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.
Frog Music
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.19(21497 ratings)
A French burlesque dancer risks everything to bring a killer to justice in this gripping historical novel from the author of Room: “her greatest achievement yet” (Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life).
Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead.
The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny’s murderer to justice–if he doesn’t track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It’s the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.
In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue’s lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.
... Read moreHaven
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 23, 2022
- Language: English
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3.44(4067 ratings)
In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them.
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks–young Trian and old Cormac–he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. 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. In such a place, what will survival mean? ... Read moreLife Mask
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Donada Peters
- Length: 23 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.52(2271 ratings)
In a time of approaching war and terrorism, spectacular wealth and financial disasters, the private world of three famous Londoners becomes a public scandal. Lord Derby – unhappily married and the richest as well as the ugliest man in the House of Lords – is the relentless suitor of England’s reigning queen of comedy, Eliza Farren. His chief rival is the aristocratic widow Anne Damer, a sculptor who, as the rumor has it, loves women. Set in parliament, on stage, the racetrack as well as the intimate salons of the Beau Monde, the bestselling author of SLAMMERKIN evocatively brings to life a world where everyone wears a mask and where erotic liaisons prove as dangerous as political ones.
... Read moreRoom
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Ellen Archer
- Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 13, 2018
- Language: English
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4.07(144380 ratings)
To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack’s curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating–a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
Room
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 13, 2010
- Language: English
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4.07(786427 ratings)
To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack’s curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child. ... Read more
The Pull of the Stars
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Emma Lowe
- Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 21, 2020
- Language: English
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3.97(47787 ratings)
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 outsiders–Doctor 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 Wonder
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrator: Tara Egan Langley
- Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.64(62854 ratings)
Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.
Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels — a tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.
Acclaim for The Wonder:
“Deliciously gothic…. Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep” (USA Today, 3/4 stars)
“Heartbreaking and transcendent”(New York Times)
“A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna’s dwindling body…. Donoghue keeps us riveted” (Chicago Tribune)
“Donoghue poses powerful questions about faith and belief” (Newsday)