Emma Donoghue and The Wonder of the fasting girls

By Linda Morris
Updated September 28 2016 - 11:13am, first published September 16 2016 - 11:00pm
Emma Donoghue's new novel draws on her experience of being a mother. Photo: Mark Raynes Roberts
Emma Donoghue's new novel draws on her experience of being a mother. Photo: Mark Raynes Roberts

As a young girl growing up Catholic in Dublin during the '70s, Emma Donoghue would often be urged to offer up her petty childhood sufferings as a "present to Jesus".

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