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The Perfect Sapphic Historical Fiction for Your Fall TBR: Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

August 20, 2023 by Rachel Friars

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Emma Donoghue’s much-anticipated new novel, Learned by Heart (29 August 2023), is a heartfelt biofiction about the life—and love—of Eliza Raine and her relationship with the famous Anne Lister. Drawing on Lister’s copious five-million-word diaries, Donoghue brings Raine’s story to life in this vivid novel.  While Anne Lister’s life and work have become enormouslyRead More

The Sealed Letter cover
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Rachel reviews The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue

June 8, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Emma Donoghue is one of my favourite lesbian writers, and one of my favourite genres is historical biographical fiction. Donoghue’s The Sealed Letter (2009) is a masterfully paced, well-plotted literary novel with a lesbian twist. And it’s based on real events! The Sealed Letter is told from three perspectives. The firstRead More

The Pull of Stars by Emma Donoghue
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Rachel reviews The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

March 9, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Emma Donoghue’s newest novel, The Pull of the Stars (Harper Avenue 2020), is perhaps one of her most compelling historical fictions to date. A fast-paced, stunning novel, I was unable to put down The Pull of the Stars until the early hours of the morning. It drew me into its world in a way that was so riveting andRead More

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Marthese reviews Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

January 21, 2016 by Danika Ellis

Emma Donoghue is a phenomenal writer take is able to make you related to her narrative. So when I heard about a new book, I knew that I will someday buy it and read it especially one with such a nice cover! Frog Music is a historical fiction with some basis in reality as itRead More

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Marthese reviews Stir-fry by Emma Donoghue

December 21, 2014 by Danika Ellis

“In what day in what month of this queue of years would she find that she had become a rootless stranger, a speck in the urban sprawl?” – Stir-fry page 13 If there was one book that I read and I thought ‘this book is me’, this book is it. It is a book thatRead More

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Danielle Ferriola reviews Hood by Emma Donoghue

April 19, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Hood is not your light reading on the beach, rather a long sitting in bed with a box of tissues and a warm blanket. Emma Donoghue writes a tragically beautiful story about two women who shared a special kind of love –a love that many might not agree with. Pen O’Grady and Cara Wall haveRead More

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Jordan reviews Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

May 10, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Far too many people often forget the power of a story. Stories change worlds, or particularly they shape worlds, and people. If you don’t believe me, just look at how much Disney has managed to shape the mentality around romance and love for many people of the current generation. And luckily it isn’t only DisneyRead More

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Danika reviews Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue

December 20, 2011 by Danika Ellis

I don’t think I can properly express how much I adored this book. As I was reading it, I wrote down the page numbers where there were quotes I wanted to post on my LesLit tumblr, as well as books I wanted to add to my TBR list, and thoughts/comments I had. Typically when IRead More

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Interview with Emma Donoghue

December 19, 2011 by Danika Ellis

I just finished reading Inseparable by Emma Donoghue (review to be posted tomorrow), and I had the opportunity to interview the author herself about it! Q: I was coming into Inseparable expecting ambiguous relationships that we could project romantic or sexual feelings on, but I was surprised at the explicit female/female desire stories in literature stretchingRead More

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New York Times article on Inseparable by Emma Donoghue

May 29, 2010 by Danika Ellis

The New York Times has a review of Emma Donoghue’s book on “desire between women”: Inseparable. The article is here. I’ve been wanting to read Inseparable for a while now, partly because it has to do with lesbian in fiction, but also because I really liked the book that I read by Emma Donoghue, KissingRead More

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