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Interview with Emma Donoghue
22 November 2010 by Nicky
Really pleased to announce our next interview on The Interview
Online
This Tuesday we shall be talking to Emma Donoghue who was
shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize with
Room.
The novel is an extraordinary story of a young mother, kidnapped
for seven years and kept in a shed. What makes the story all the
more remarkable is that it's told from the perspective of her five
year old son Jack, to whom she gave birth while locked up. Jack has
no experience of the world except what he's learnt from the TV and
what is in Room. Which to him is real?
Audrey Niffenegger is quoted on the cover "Room is a
book to read in one sitting". We didn't quite manage it but wish we
could have stopped the world until we had. I'm really looking
forward to interviewing the author. She's in Canada so it will have
to be "down the line" as we say in the business.
If you've read the book, please do suggest a question or
two.
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