Friends & Fiction with Emma Donoghue

On this episode, Ron Block and Kristin Harmel welcome internationally bestselling author of contemporary and historical fiction, Emma Donoghue, to discuss her latest book, The Paris Express, a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 railway disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Emma Donoghue is the author of sixteen novels, including the award-winning national bestseller Room, the basis for the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Brie Larson. Emma’s fiction has been translated into more than forty languages and she has written the screenplays for her novels Room and The Wonder, and nine stage plays. Her next film is the adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s NYT-bestselling memoir, H Is for Hawk. Emma joins us to discuss The Paris Express which has gotten starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist and been named a most anticipated book of the year by the Los Angeles Times and Oprah Daily. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.