Donoghue, E. (2010). Room. London:Picador.
Grey Granite recommended this book after reading the Boy with the Striped Pyjamas. It was a compulsive read. However, at the beginning, all Dr Anne could think of was the Flowers in the Attic that she read in the 1980s which she remembered as a bizarre tale. She also kept thining of the Austrian guy who imprisoned his daughter in the cellar and fathered numberous children and the girl who was imprisoned in Vienna. Dr Anne agrees with the critics that the story is powerful.
She awards 7/10 for this read.
Grey Granite is glad Dr Anne enjoyed Room, she heard Emma Donoghue discussing the influence of the Austrian guy etc on her writing on Woman's Hour shortly after publication.
ReplyDeleteGrey Granite found the child's vocabulary and perceptions of the world particulary interesting.