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"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic.
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Grave, meticulous, relentless and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 405
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada, Little, Brown & Company, Uitgeverij Atlas Contact
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781447249740
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Grew up in Ireland, 20s in England doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, since then in Canada. Best known for my novel, film and play ROOM, also other contemporary and historical novels and short stories, non-fiction, theatre and middle-grade novels.
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