Room author emma donoghue6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The famine in the 1840s was one of the most famous examples of starvation. Why set the book in the 1850s, a decade after the Great Famine? I am used to taking a single historical case and turning it into my own, but, there wasn’t one perfect case, so I wrote my own and set it in my home country of Ireland. ![]() There are books about this whole tradition of fasting girls, and at least 20 years ago, I came across one of these cases. How did you come up with the idea for this novel? She spoke to us about the inspiration for The Wonder, adapting Room, and her next projects. ![]() ![]() Thursday, she’ll join Atlanta author Joshilyn Jackson for a conversation at SCADshow. On Wednesday night, Donoghue will read from the book in Athens at Avid Bookshop. As Anna’s health deteriorates, Lib must determine if the situation is a miracle, as many in town believe, or a hoax. The novel, set in 1850s Ireland, tells the story of Lib Wright, an English nurse hired to watch 11-year-old Anna, who has supposedly survived without eating anything for four months. Her latest historical fiction, The Wonder, was released last month. Irish novelist Emma Donoghue became an international sensation with the 2010 publication of Room, the New York Times bestseller that became the 2015 Oscar-winning feature film. ![]()
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