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“It was written off the back of the Fritzl case, the real-life story of a girl being trapped for years by her father, an abuser…It’s narrated from the perspective of five-year-old Jack. The voice that Emma Donoghue creates for Jack is so beautiful and yet horrifying at the same time. He is the product of a rape. His mother was kidnapped five years ago and has been kept in a room ever since. Jack has never seen the outside world. Everything he’s ever experienced has been in this tiny room.” Read more...