Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue talks about her new novel, "The Wonder." 

Oscar nominees Lenny Abrahamson and Emma Donoghue on translating “Room” from the page to film – and how the right collaboration is a lot like marriage. 

Emma Donoghue taught herself screenwriting to adapt her bestselling "Room" for the screen. But there was no guarantee the director would actually hire her.

Emma Donoghue talks about her novel Frog Music, which tells the story of Blanche Beunon, a French burlesque dancer in mid-19th century San Francisco who risks everything to bring to justice the murderer of her friend Jenny.

They’re the forgotten minor characters of history: A Texas slave who kills his master and runs away with the master’s wife. An elephant trainer heartbroken at the sale of his best f...

 

Chapter 1: Presents

Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra. Before that I was three, then two, then one, then zero. "Was I minus numbers?"

"Hmm?" Ma does a big stretch.

"Up in Heaven. Was I minus one, minus two, minus three — ?"

"Nah, the numbers didn't start till you zoomed down."

"Through Skylight. You were all sad till I happened in your tummy."

"You said it."

Ma leans out of Bed to switch on Lamp, he makes everything light up whoosh.

I shut my eyes just in time, then open one a crack, then both.

"I cried till I didn't have any tears left," she tells me.