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Informationen zum Autor Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Room sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue co-wrote the 2022 screen adaptation for Netflix. The Pull of the Stars was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Haven was shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. Donoghue’s fiction ranges from the contemporary ( Stir-Fry , Hood , Landing , Touchy Subjects , Akin ) to the historical ( Learned by Heart , Slammerkin , The Sealed Letter , Astray , Frog Music ) and includes two books for young readers, The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More or Less . Zusammenfassung Based on the details of a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864! The Sealed Letter is a provocative historical drama that is strangely relevant to modern issues surrounding women! marriage! rights and roles. Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer of the British women's movement! independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her beloved cause by the sudden return of her once-dear friend! the unhappily wed Helen Codrington! Fido is swept up in the intimate details of Helen's failing marriage to the stodgy Admiral Harry Codrington. What begins as a loyal effort to help a friend explodes into a courtroom drama more sensational than any Hollywood tabloid could invent-with stained clothing! accusations of adultery! counterclaims of rape and a mysterious letter that could destroy more than one life. HarperCollins is proud to deliver Emma Donoghue's internationally celebrated work into the hands of discerning fiction readers in this! her first Canadian publication. The Sealed Letter is the perfect book to mark this milestone event-a masterpiece that brings the force of a life that changed our world into captivating view. ...
