Hood - Softcover

Donoghue, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443422622 ISBN 13: 9781443422628

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2013

Synopsis

In the late ’70s, convent school teenagers Pen O’Grady and Cara Wall fall in love. They prove themselves to be up to the challenge of a relationship deemed unacceptable in Catholic Ireland―until Cara dies in a car accident. Hood is a bittersweet, complicated love story.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Dublin in 1969, EMMA DONOGHUE is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright who lives in Canada. Her novel Room won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada/Caribbean) and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes, selling more than two million copies. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film of Room which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Her fiction (short and long) ranges from the contemporary (Stir-fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects) to the historical (Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music).  Donoghue’s books for young readers are The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More Or Less. Her last novel for adults, The Wonder, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1443422622
• ISBN 13: 9781443422628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320