Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of Oct. 24th
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It is the 297th day of the year, leaving 68 days remaining in 2022.
On this date, the author Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland.
In one of her first novels, Hood, she writes about a closeted lesbian, a school teacher at a Catholic school in Ireland, coming to grips with the death of her partner. She can neither grieve, express her love and loss, nor even mourn with her lover's well meaning but naïve father, who still thinks of them as just good friends who live together.
In The Sealed Letter, Donoghue resurrects a scandal from 1860s Britain from the records of a sensational divorce case. She tells the tale partly from the involvement of a reluctant spinster. It brings to life all the drama in the case and in London's class system.
Life Mask tells of three people in 1780s London high society -- a closeted lesbian sculpturer, a leading stage actress, and a wealthy earl who become involved in each other's lives.
But perhaps her best known work is Room, which came out in 2010 and tell the story of a woman and her child who are locked in a room for the child's first five years. Told in the voice of the young boy, starting from his first questions about who he is and what else is out there, it explores a child discovering the world, and his mother trying to protect him from the worst.
Room won several major writing awards, including being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The movie version was nominated for four Oscars, including Donoghue for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Donoghue lives with her wife and two children in Ontario, Canada.
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