I picked up this book because of a review I read somewhere that compared Freudenberger to Jhumpa Lahiri; I suppose with expectations that high, I should have expected to be let down, which I definitely was to the nth degree. This book started out with so much potential, but about a quarter of the way …
Major Pettigrew’s artistic designer should win a prize. His catchy title is emblazoned across a lovely periwinkle blue book jacket, beneath which a couple of vibrantly coloured old-fashioned jackets and hats hang on an equally old-fashioned coat tree. I do have to confess that the sheer loveliness of this book jacket drove me away from Ms. …
Everyone else who has read Emma Donoghue’s newest novel, Room seems to love it – including the judges for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (for best Canadian novel), and the Commonwealth Fiction Prize (Canada & Carribbean Region), all of which she won won handily. Perhaps …
