They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, sex and sanity. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue’s latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters.
I couldn’t resist picking Astray up when I saw it in the library.Ĭounterfeiter. Donoghue has been on my radar since then. I can’t remember the last time I cried so much. I read Donoghue’s novel Room for my book group over a year ago.
