"Donoghue offers vivid characters and a gripping portrait of a world beset by a pandemic and political uncertainty. A fascinating read in these difficult times."— Booklist (starred review)

Praise for Akin: A Novel

"Soul stirring."— O Magazine

"We are never too old, Donoghue reminds us, to emerge from our childish dusks. What begins as a larky story of unlikely male bonding turns into an off-center but far richer novel about the unheralded, imperfect heroism of two women — Michael's incarcerated mother and Noah's long deceased one — and the way we preserve the past and prepare for the future."— Megan O'Grady, The New York Times Book Review

"Continuously charming."— Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World

"In Donoghue's sure hands, both Noah and his snarky charge are immediately distinctive, their voices clear...It would be a stretch to say these two loners redeem each other, but cast together, they do at least learn to reach out. By their flight back to their new, shared home, they've touched the reader as well."— Boston Globe

"As always, Donoghue's quite poignant on the idea of home — as both a place and a person. Though Michael and Noah are alien to each other, Noah reflects, they were, 'in an odd way, akin.'"— Seattle Times

"Akin turns unabashedly sentimental, but only a stone wouldn't be moved by its final pages."— Heller McAlpin, Barnes and Noble Review

"AKIN's strength lies in Donoghue's richly drawn characters. Oh, and don't be surprised if you finish this book and immediately start researching flights to Nice."— Yahoo Lifestyle and PureWow

Praise for The Wonder

"Fascinating. . . . Like "The Turn of the Screw," the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place. . . . Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itself."
— Sarah Lyall, New York Times

"Exquisite . . . a tight, intense drama. . . . Anna may or may not be a genuine 'living marvel,' but The Wonder certainly is"
— Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

"A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner. . . . Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality's] power to destroy."
— Stephen King, New York Times Book Review