A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish TimesEleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story .

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Lorsque Pen rencontre Cara, elles ont quinze ans et poursuivent leur scolarité dans la même classe d’une institution religieuse de Dublin. C’est le début d’une longue histoire d’amour, complexe et chaotique, dont la passion sensuelle semble l’expression la plus limpide.

Cara et moi

Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room. San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything - and leaving one of them dead. A New York Times bestseller, Frog Music is a dark and compelling story of intrigue and murder.

Frog Music

'Excellent new collection. Her touch is so light and exuberantly inventive, her insight at once so forensic and intimate, her people so ordinary even in their oddities.

Touchy Subjects - Stories

Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes and ribbons, as people of her class do for food and warmth. It's a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant and almost dies on the dangerous streets of London. Her saviour is Doll - a prostitute. Mary roams London freely with Doll, selling her body to all manner of 'cullies', dressed whorishly in colourful, gaudy dresses with a painted red smile.
Faced with bad debts and threats upon her life she eventually flees to Monmouth, her mother's hometown, where she attempts to start a new life as a maid in Mrs Jones's house. But Mary soon discovers that she can't escape her past and just how dearly people like her pay for yearnings not fitting to their class in society...

Slammerkin

B>A major film starring Brie Larson, /b>b>winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Best Actress BAFTA/b>br>b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize,/b>b> the Orange Prize and a Richard and Judy Book Club selection./b>Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.

ROOM

From Emma Donoghue, the national bestselling author of Room, Slammerkin is "[a] colorful romp of a novel" (The New York Times Book Review) following one woman's journey of self-discovery and survival at the dawn of the industrial revolution in eighteenth century England. Slammerkin: A loose gown; a loose woman. Born to rough cloth in Hogarth's London, but longing for silk, Mary Saunders's eye for a shiny red ribbon leads her to prostitution at a young age. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth, and the position of household seamstress, the ordinary life of an ordinary girl with no expectations. But Mary has known freedom, and having never known love, it is freedom that motivates her. Mary asks herself if the prostitute who hires out her body is more or less free than the "honest woman" locked into marriage, or the servant who runs a household not her own? And is either as free as a man? Ultimately, Mary remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets: Never give up your liberty. Clothes make the woman. Clothes are the greatest lie ever told.

A l'été 1876, la ville de San Francisco suffoque sous une chaleur accablante. Dans un saloon, en lisière d'une voie ferrée, un coup de feu retentit. Blanche Beunon échappe de justesse à la mort qui n'épargne pas son amie Jenny Bonnet, fauchée sur le coup. Inconsolable, Blanche, une danseuse de burlesque française, met tout en oeuvre pour conduire le meurtrier de Jenny devant la justice. Les événements qu'elle s'efforce de recomposer impliquent tout un monde d'indigents au désespoir, de souteneurs, d'enfants perdus... 
Peu à peu, elle découvre les secrets de Jenny. Emma Donoghue livre une envoûtante histoire de femmes bataillant pour s'affranchir du monde sans foi ni loi de la grande ville de l'Ouest.

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