![]() My 2020 novel The Pull of the Stars was inspired by the centenary of the Great Flu of 1918 and is set in a Dublin hospital where a nurse midwife, a doctor and a volunteer helper fight to save patients in a tiny maternity quarantine ward. The novel received strongly positive reviews from critics and was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020. In 2010 Knopf and Random House Canada brought out my study of a thousand years of plot motifs in Western literature, Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature, which won the Stonewall Non-Fiction Award from the American Library Association. Showing Editorial results for chris roulston. ![]() And the labels commit me to nothing, of course my books arent and dont have to be all about Ireland, or women, or lesbians. Calgary Herald, 'Donoghue often writes about outsiders combine older-world settings with stories that have an eerie resonance for contemporary society. ![]() Ideally Id want British newspapers, the weather of the south of France, American television and the polite manners of Canada. ![]() Editorial Reviews 'This is the smart, timely, interdisciplinary book that Anne Lister deserves. (modern), Emma Donoghue: 'My conscience wasnt troubled. My first contemporary novel for adults after Room was Akin ( 2019) it's about a retired New York professor and his eleven-year-old great-nephew going to the French Riviera to unearth the professor's mother's wartime secrets. ![]()
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