Praise for Emma Donoghue'Donoghue is a master of plot' Time'These rooms of Donoghue's may be tiny and sealed off, yet they teem with life-and-death drama and great moral questions' Washington Post'Donoghue, a writer of great vitality and generosity, has been drawn repeatedly to the genre of historical fiction not so much to inhabit or reinterpret the past as to try to fit together its overlooked, missing pieces . . . Fiction is small solace for history's grief, but it's one way to set the record straight' Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker'We can count on her to plumb the heart of human darkness' Newsday'Her touch is so light and exuberantly inventive, her insight at once so forensic and intimate, her people so ordinary even in their oddities' Guardian'A mind that can excavate characters and lives far, far beyond her own front fence' Globe and Mail