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Emma Donoghue’s break-out bestseller, Slammerkin (2000), is about a teenage street prostitute in eighteenth-century London, and her forthcoming Frog Music (Little Brown, Spring 2014) is a murder story told from the point of view of a high-priced ‘soiled dove’ in 1870s San Francisco. She is also the author of Room and Astray. Please sample her delights at www.emmadonoghue.com.

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<p>The author of <i>Room</i>, <i>Slammerkin</i>, and <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Astray-Emma-Donoghue/dp/0316206288">Astray</a></i> picks five of the best historical fictions about the oldest profession.</p>

Emma Donoghue | Published Oct 29, 2013

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