Books with author Gemma Donoghue

Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. Inspiration for the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Academy Award winner Brie LarsonTo five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. Inspiration for the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Academy Award winner Brie LarsonTo five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA

Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. Inspiration for the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Academy Award winner Brie LarsonTo five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Good Enough is a fast, jagged hypnotic read. Fans of The Fault in Our Stars, Eleanor and Park and Ellen Hopkins will love this new young adult novel. Ten facts about myself.1. My name is Simon Baker.2. I'm seventeen years old.3. I have two sisters. Jessica, who's fourteen and Bailey who's twelve.4. My parents aren't divorced, they're still together.5. We live in a nice two-story house in a nice neighborhood.6. My parents don't do drugs, they don't even drink that often, and neither do I.7. My parents have never hit us, they've never kept us locked up in the basement or kicked us out of the house.8. No one has ever touched me in the wrong place.9. I've been to parties and I've been in a few fights but never over anything serious.10. I didn't try to kill myself.Except that Simon wakes up to find that his parents have had him committed to Palmdale Psychiatric Hospital after a failed suicide attempt. Simon wasn't normal and he knew it. He was struggling after losing his best -and only- friend, with being an outcast at school. He tries his best to pretend that everything is okay, but there is still a part of him that he would always keep locked away from everyone else. Life in the center is regimented and intrusive. Nurses and attendants watch Simon while he sleeps, while he eats and accompany him to the bathroom, and challenge him to talk about what he's worked so hard to avoid. Good Enough will keep you hooked from the first page. Simon has a strong but complicated family dynamic. His closeness with his sisters as well as his distance from his mother influences many of his thoughts. Simon also forms a strong, slow-burning, emotional, vulnerable friendship and later relationship with Oliver, who helps Simons alongside him on their path to recovery.Donoghue doesn't hold back in her portrayal of mental illness and laying out the triggering incidents that lead to Simon's suicide attempt. Donoghue dives into the complexity of coming out, relationships, and the emotional residue of guilt, fear, and betrayal.Highlighting the devastating physical and mental effects they had on Simon, his friends, and family. Donoghue reveals Simon's past friendships, his toxic relationships, and the trauma that he has experienced to show the factors that compounded, one after another that led to his suicide attempt and mental state.Good Enough is a sharp, heartbreaking, emotional journey. From the lows of grief and suicide to the highs of first love to the lows of loss and despair, Simon's story is a compelling read.Gemma Donoghue is the author of the hit young adult book Delicate, Fragile, If I Fall and Talk.

Fans of John Green, Ellen Hopkins, and Laurie Halse Anderson will love Fragile. A painful powerful read, Fragile offers an intense look into the lives of two girls with eating disorders. In clear, gut-wrenching prose, Katherine and Carol take turns narrating their story of destructive behaviors that control their every thought. It started with a candy bar.One minute Katherine was sitting on the couch watching cartoons, about to eat a Snickers.The next she was running to the bathroom and shoving two fingers down her throat and throwing up.Katherine doesn't know how her eating disorder started; was it curiosity, a jealous competition with her best friend Carol to see who would be the smallest, or was it something else? All she knows is that she dropped six sizes in five months after her grandmother tried to file for custody of her after her parents divorced when she was at her lowest weight.Katherine feels like she has lost control over her life and the only thing she believes she can control is what she eats. It became easier and easier for her to lie to her dad and say that she had eaten, to lie to herself and say she was full, or to just not eat at all.At 95 pounds she doesn't feel like a size zero. She still feels fat. When she looks in the mirror she can all she sees is an ocean of fat hanging off of her body even though no one else can see it. Katherine doesn't see food as food. She only sees the calories it contains.Katherine is stuck in a rut in life. And now she's trapped in the small town of Deer's Run New York. Life in Deer's Run is a nightmare come true. Her grandmother has the school nurse, teachers, and lunchroom attendants watch Katherine at lunch, when she goes to the bathroom, and challenges her constantly to eat the foods she's spent half of her life avoiding.Katherine has planned to stay in Deer's Run for her sophomore year. But what he Dad doesn't know is that Katherine only plans on staying long enough to convince her Dad and more importantly her grandmother that she is healthy. Healthy enough to avoid being shipped back to the Rosewood Inpatient Clinic for Eating Disorders, a treatment center for girls like her--girls with eating disorders.After her her former best friend Carol commits suicide death, Katherine listens to the messages that Carol left her. Listening to these messages, Carol's unlikely suicide note, Katherine discovers how everything is connected and how the smallest acts caused the biggest ripples. How each story, each person who touched her life pushed her to her death. Revealing the subtle cruelties of teenagers, from bullying, to rumors, to rape, Carolexplains herself, her pain, her story. Most of the novel takes place in Katherine's head, as she listens to Carol's voice and to the ugly voice in her head, telling her not to eat. To starve, and to purge which she does in chilling detail.As the trauma of Carol's death coupled with Katherine's strained relationship with her parents and grandmother makes her tighten her grip on her eating disorder. To control something as her world seemingly collapses all around her. Fragile is a gut-wrenching read and a peek into a world where everything is connected and everything comes full circle.Donoghue has created an intriguing character study into the minds of people who make difficult, unimaginable choices. A dark, gritty read from a talented new author.

Fans of The Fault in Our Stars, Eleanor and Park and Ellen Hopkins will love Good Enough, a fast, raw hypnotic new young adult novel. Ten facts about myself.1. My name is Simon Baker.2. I'm seventeen years old. 3. I have two sisters. Jessica, who's fourteen and Bailey who's twelve. 4. My parents aren't divorced, they're still together.5. We live in a nice two-story house in a nice neighborhood. 6. My parents don't do drugs, they don't even drink that often, and neither do I. 7. My parents have never hit us, they've never kept us locked up in the basement or kicked us out of the house. 8. No one has ever touched me in the wrong place. 9. I've been to parties and I've been in a few fights but never over anything serious.10. I didn't try to kill myself. Except that Simon wakes up to find that his parents have had him committed to Palmdale Psychiatric Hospital after a failed suicide attempt. Simon wasn't normal and he knew it. He was struggling after losing his best -and only- friend, with being an outcast at school. He tries his best to pretend that everything is okay, but there is still a part of him that he would always keep locked away from everyone else. Life in the center is regimented and intrusive. Nurses and attendants watch Simon while he sleeps, while he eats and accompany him to the bathroom, and challenge him to talk about what he's worked so hard to avoid. Good Enough will keep you hooked from the first page. Simon has a strong but complicated family dynamic. His closeness with his sisters as well as his distance from his mother influences many of his thoughts. Simon also forms a strong, slow-burning, emotional, vulnerable friendship and later relationship with Oliver, who helps Simons alongside him on their path to recovery.Donoghue doesn't hold back in her portrayal of mental illness and laying out the triggering incidents that lead to Simon's suicide attempt. Donoghue dives into the complexity of coming out, relationships, and the emotional residue of guilt, fear, and betrayal. Highlighting the devastating physical and mental effects they had on Simon, his friends, and family. Donoghue reveals Simon's past friendships, his toxic relationships, and the trauma that he has experienced to show the factors that compounded, one after another that led to his suicide attempt and mental state. Good Enough is a sharp, heartbreaking, emotional journey. From the lows of grief and suicide to the highs of first love to the lows of loss and despair, Simon's story is a compelling read.Gemma Donoghue is the author of the best selling young adult book Delicate.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.

Fans of Speak by Laure Halse Anderson and Identical by Ellen Hopkins will love Talk, Donoghue's young adult book reaches new heights in this portrait of sexual abuse, violent alcoholism, and devastating realizations. TalkSometimes the past just won't let go. You wake up and everything has changed. Your whole world is turned upside down. And you know that things will never be the same.Four lives, two different roads, two destinations: a psychiatric hospital or the morgue.The Hales are an all American middle-class family on the outside. But behind their masquerade, each member of the family has their own dark secrets.For Susie, she's the oldest and the most responsible, the voice of reason in the family, and maintained the facade of happiness. But dig a little deeper and find a girl still scared, looking for her father's love, and substituting it with sex and alcohol.For Mary, she is the youngest and suffered the most from their painful childhood, can only find peace through cutting and is in a constant battle with her parents, her sister and her life.George Hale is a charming man, who chose to live an unconventional life and stubbornly forced those ideals on his family. He drank. He would pick fights. He would disappear for days on end only to return and uproot them from their life and they would find some new place to live with the police right on their heels. Susie and Mary. They are half of the Hales All American Family. But what lies beneath their wholesome family facade? Each sister hides their own dark secret, being sexually abused by George, their own father.Gemma Donoghue is the author of the Hit Young Adult book Delicate, Fragile and Good Enough.

In Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue (author of the Man Booker and Orange prize shortlisted novel Room) unwinds thirteen fairy tales and writes them anew: Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother, Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror, and Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. In these stories, Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances - sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.

Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. Inspiration for the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Academy Award winner Brie LarsonTo five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin.