Questions I would like to ask Emma Donoghue

I was recommend to read your book Room (Emma Donoghue)

I was absolutely blown away by this novel; it was not at all what I expected it to be about. To the point you convinced me this novel was a true story.

As a writer I would love to know how you came up with this idea. Did you know someone or was it you? Or was it completely from your imagination?

The way you wrote from a child’s perspective was great and you included how they would speak, not knowing much grammar, which made it so authentic. It made the novel so much more believable.

At first I did not like it from a young child’s perspective but then I did not know what this book was really like and where and where you were heading with it.

This novel completely shocked me: I could not believe a child and a mother could go through this terrible ordeal. I felt so sorry for him when his mum would not get out of bed and would just lie in a deep sleep, which left him to offend for himself.

The part that disgusted me at first was that she was still breastfeeding him at four years old. It’s amazing how one novel can make you have so many different emotions and want to be getting involved in the situations that are happening and shouting out at her to do something.

When I got to the end of the novel, I felt I wanted more and felt like I was left in limbo. I was hoping there was second instalment, but there is not.

Emma I am so interested to know how you do that, leaving a reader wanting more- how did you get a reader to feel all these different reactions and emotions?

These are some of the questions I have for you and would like  your knowledge and experience to help me incorporate these techniques in my writing.

I just felt that I was going on emotional rollercoaster with these two characters and would love to bring this in my work.

What inspired you to write this bo

ok?

Did you have to know very much about this area of abuse/ kidnapping?

You have inspired me to try different avenues, ideas and approaches.

Thank you so much for your time.

In lecture we were asked to write a letter or just piece of writing to author we admire. I wrote about Emma Donoghue wrote Room. In this piece am asking her questions and talking about her book.