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Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Her novel Room has sold almost three million, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue co-wrote the screen adaptation. The Pull of the Stars was nominated for the Trillium Book Award and Scotiabank Giller Prize. Donoghue's fiction ranges from the contemporary to the historical and includes two books for young readers.
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Judith Krantz, Princess Daisy (1980). Because, ‘bookbuster’, as they used to call bestsellers with sex scenes.
Right now it’s ‘Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again’ from Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca, which I’ve echoed in a little homage in the opening line of my latest novel Learned by Heart.
Unutterably cluttered.
Sickness, dementia, death: Timor mortis conturbat me, as the plain-spoken medievals put it.
Not so secret, but I’m working on a musical.
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