Frog Music, in common with Donoghue's other historical fiction, is more faithful to its real-life origins, in this case the murder of a young woman called Jenny Bonnet. Although Room famously owed a part of its conception to the notorious "Fritzl" case of a woman kept caprive by her father, it bore little resemblance to it. If those ingredients don't make for sufficient drama, the city is in the grip of both a smallpox epidemic and a heatwave.įrog Music is Donoghue's first novel since the Booker-shortlisted Room in 2010, and on the surface they have little in common. This is the cast of Emma Donoghue's eighth novel, a tale set in the rooming houses and bars of San Francisco in 1876.
E xotic dancers, pimps, whores and a cross-dressing, bicycle-riding gamine who makes a living catching frogs for the cooking pots of restaurant kitchens.
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