Shiromi Arserio’s velvety voice is perfect for this tale of forbidden love set in the confines of an English boarding school in the 1800s.
A masterful storyteller, Emma Donoghue brings her dazzling talent and imagination to this historical novel based on a true story of risk, love and two young women discovering themselves by way of each other.
This novel takes place in a hospital ward where pregnant women have been quarantined during the 1918 influenza epidemic.
Emma Donoghue’s moving novel is a plea for an end to the inequality that pandemics make all the more stark.
Stories about the mysteries of childhood have often been at the heart of Emma Donoghue’s fiction, and so it is with Akin.
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