Hood

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Hamish Hamilton, 1995 - Fiction - 309 pages
"In the late 1970s, Penelope O'Grady and Cara Wall fall in love. As classmates at an Irish convent school, however, the two girls stand to lose everything in the name of their devotion. Yet Pen, spirited though vulnerable, and Cara, a free spirit who marches to no-one's drum but her own, together learn to answer the challenges that Catholic Ireland's close-minded culture levies against their same-sex relationship. Over the following years, their tumultuous romance, full of love and passion, desire and flight, survives attacks from the outside as well doubts from within and infidelities that call everything into question. Their bond strengthens until it seems as thought nothing could sever it. But now, nearly fifteen years after their first night together on the roof of the seminary, Cara has died in a car accident, and Pen must learn how to bear the pain of loss, how to come to terms with the dualities that underscore their deep yet turbulent love, and how to move on without her life-long partner."--Publisher's description

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Emma Donoghue was born on October 24, 1969 in Dublin, Ireland. She received her BA degree from the University College Dublin and PhD in English from University of Cambridge. Her first novel was Stir. Her next novel was Hood which won the 1997 American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award for Literature. Her novel Slammerkin was a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction. The Sealed Letter, published in 2008, is a work of historical fiction. This work was the joint winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She continued writing several award winning novels including Room which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in September 2010. Some of her other works include Astray, Three and a Half Deaths, and Frog Music.

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