By Emma Donoghue | Narrated by Emma Lowe
…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….
By Emma Donoghue
…and all the nerve she can muster to start remaking her life. Donoghue’s Hood is a masterfully crafted narrative of relationships and a daring, deft exploration of the love’s imperfection—and how it can nonetheless dominate our lives as we grow…
By Emma Donoghue | Narrated by Donada Peters
Marriages and friendships stretch or break; political liaisons prove as dangerous as erotic ones; and everyone wears a mask. Will Eliza Farren, England’s leading comedic actress, gain entry to that elite circle that calls itself the World? Can Lord Derby,…
By Emma Donoghue
Miss Emily “Fido” Faithfull is a “woman of business” and a spinster pioneer in the British women’s movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the unhappily…
By Emma Donoghue | Narrated by Shiromi Arserio
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy,…
By Emma Donoghue | Narrated by Laura Hicks
Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to Ireland, Ontario, the tiny town in which she was born and raised. When Jude meets Síle on her first transatlantic plane trip, the spark between them is instant. After a coffee shared…
By Isabel Miller | Narrated by Jean Smart, Janis Ian
…of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by Emma Donoghue, the Irish novelist whose numerous books include the contemporary Dublin novels Stirfry and Hood, the latter of which won the ALA’s Gay…
…by Heart by Emma Donoghue A must for Gentleman Jack fans, and a great example of historical fiction. Rich in detail, the Regency boarding school setting is beautifully evoked. Fifteen-year old Anne Lister leaps off the page – utterly compelling,…
…Roots by McGee Mathews I liked the combination of humor and irony. 3. Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue A love story in a 19th Century girls boarding school. Drawn from diaries of Anne Lister. 4. Undercover Love by Annette…
…their top 5 reads of 2023 and now it’s time to reveal them, which we’ll be doing daily. Here are the most recent top 5 lists. Martha Miller unveils their top reads that include authors J.M. Redmann, McGee Mathews, Emma…