A review by lola425
Astray by Emma Donoghue

4.0

I did not read Room and am more familiar with Donoghue from Kissing the Witch, which retlls fairy tales with a lesbian/feminist twist. I found this to similar to that book, in that she uses history as a jumping off point for her storytelling. I can honestly say that I enjoted all of these stories and liked that she explained the origins after you have read them, rather than before so your perception of the characters and the story is not impeded by picking apart what is fact and what is fiction. It is a testament to Donoghue's skill that the stories scan just as well as non-fiction as they do as pure fiction.