Book review: Akin by Emma Donoghue
Another tale of love and parenthood from a novelist at the height of her powers
Fiction: Akin, By Emma Donoghue, Picador, €17.50
Emma Donoghue’s Room is one of the great artistic responses to becoming a parent. Imagine having to raise a child (feeding, changing nappies, explaining the world) while you were imprisoned by a madman in an 11-foot-square shed. And imagine what that experience would feel like to your child.
Exhaustively lauded, bought by the bushel and lauded all over again when it was filmed by Lenny Abrahamson ...
