Emma Donoghue
Irish-Canadian novelist, playwright and literary historian, born in Dublin in 1969; best known for the novel "Room" (2010), which was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film. She writes novels, plays, short fiction and books for younger readers.
Books
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1. Learned By Heart
Fourteen year old Eliza Raine boards at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, she was sent to England as a child and now lives apart from her older sister Jane. She keeps to herself until a fearless, charismatic new student arrives and the two form an intense, unlikely relationship that upends Eliza's life.
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