![]() ![]() Sarah Lyall, New York Times A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner. ![]() Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itself Like The Turn of the Screw, the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place. Then she is working on a contemporary novel set in France. ![]() Her matron suggested that Lib travel to Ireland to breastfeed at the O’Donnell Home for two weeks. She was a Florence-trained Nightingale and worked in a hospital in England after the Crimean War. Lib is a widow who became a nurse for a year after her husband died. Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tendernessĪudrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife Fascinating. Donoghue’s next book will be a novel for middle-grade children she and her partner of 22 years have two, a boy, 12, and a girl, 9. The story takes place in southern Ireland in 1859 over a period of two weeks. ![]()
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