Reading Pleasures
The author of Room, Slammerkin, and Astray picks five of the best historical fictions about the oldest profession.
Emma Donoghue’s break-out bestseller, Slammerkin (2000), is about a teenage street prostitute in eighteenth-century London, and her forthcoming Frog Music (Little Brown, Spring 2014) is a murder story told from the point of view of a high-priced ‘soiled dove’ in 1870s San Francisco. She is also the author of Room and Astray. Please sample her delights at www.emmadonoghue.com.
The author of Room, Slammerkin, and Astray picks five of the best historical fictions about the oldest profession.