- LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together.
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Earnest, intimate, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company, HarperAvenue, Back Bay Books
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781549188909
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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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