Akin

A poignant and hopeful tale * Woman Magazine * Heartwarming and humourous. * Radio Times * A delicate and moving reminder of the way in which our human stories are made from practical choices - often in life as well as in literature. * Harper's Bazaar * Sweet, tender and defiantly unsentimental, this is a sad, funny look at how flawed, fragile people develop a sense of belonging. * Psychologies * Absorbing. I loved the growing relationship between the two. -- Nina Pottell * Prima * A highly enjoyable novel' * Daily Mail * Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world. * Woman & Home * An important, touching novel that stays with you long after you're done reading it. * Independent * Akin offers a subtle, entertaining portrait of the relationship-and friction-between age and youth. * The Economist * Highly emotional but never sentimental. * Vogue * Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction * Irish Times * Absorbing, truthful and beautiful . . . it is a kind of sustained poem in praise of motherhood and parental love * Observer * Sophisticated in outlook and execution . . . Utterly plausible, vividly described * New York Times * One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time -- John Boyne, author of <i>The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas</i> Praise for Room: Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness -- Audrey Niffenegger, author of <i>The Time Traveler's Wife</i>