THE SEALED LETTER

Drawn from the details of the Codrington Affair, a scandalous divorce case that gripped Britain in 1864, THE SEALED LETTER is both a gripping courtroom thriller and a domestic exposé of friendship, betrayal, love, and infidelity.

What begins as Miss Emily ‘Fido’ Faithfull’s loyal effort to help a friend explodes into a courtroom drama that rivals anything a tabloid could invent – complete with stained clothing, accusations of adultery, counterclaims of rape, and a mysterious letter that could destroy more than one life.

In 2008 THE SEALED LETTER was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s foremost prize for fiction. The novel was also joint winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction.

‘A page-turner… Mesmerizing… Riveting.’ LONDON FREE PRESS

‘So intense it almost burns holes in the page…’ EDMONTON JOURNAL

The Lambda Literary Awards seek to recognize excellence in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature. Read more about the Lambda Literary Awards>>

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UK and Commonwealth volume rights (excluding Australia and Canada), translation rights and film rights are available in THE SEALED LETTER. Please contact us for further details.

Reviews:

Publishers Weekly, starred review – 16 June 2008

The New York Times Book Review – 12 October 2008

The Seattle Times – 5 September 2008

Quill & Quire – April 2008

Publisher: HarperCollins Canada (28 March 2008)
Hardback: 396 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1554680360
ISBN-13: 978-1554680368

Publisher: Harper Perennial Canada (April 3 2009)
Paperback: 432
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1554680379
ISBN-13: 978-1554680375

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA (September 22, 2008)
Hardback: 416 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 015101549X
ISBN-13: 978-0151015498

Publisher: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA (September 24, 2009)
Paperback: 416 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0547247761
ISBN-13: 978-0547247762

Publisher: Scribe Publications, Australia and New Zealand (29 June 2009)
Paperback: 384 pages
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1921372834

landing

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Harcourt (7 May 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0151012970
ISBN-13: 978-0151012978

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships-the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet.

Síle is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who's travelled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. On her first plane trip, Jude's and Síle's worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their friends and families, will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit.

This sparkling, lively story explores age-old questions: Does where you live matter more than who you live with? What would you give up for love, and would you be a fool to do so?

Touchy Subjects

Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher: Harcourt (Jun 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0151013861
ISBN-13: 978-0151013869

This collection of nineteen contemporary stories about taboos and embarrassment ranges from Ireland to Louisiana, Canada to Tuscany, and includes characters old, young, queer, straight, and simply confused. From the consequences of a polite social lie to the turmoil caused by a single hair on a woman’s chin, it dramatises the small acts upon which our lives often turn. Published in the UK by Virago.

The woman who gave birth to rabbits

Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Harcourt (May 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0151009376
ISBN-13: 978-0151009374

This is a sequence of short stories about peculiar little incidents in the history of the British Isles, from a 1300s Satanist to an 1800s animal-rights campaign. The collection was published by Virago in the UK and has been translated into Dutch. The book was a finalist in the 2003 Stonewall Book Award.

Slammerkin

Paperback: 422 pages
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New Ed edition (7 Jun 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 186049899X
ISBN-13: 978-1860498992

Inspired by a murder that took place in the Welsh Borders in 1763, Slammerkin (meaning a loose dress, and a loose woman) is Donoghue's first historical novel, a gripping study of a prostitute obsessed with clothes. First published in 2000, it was a Main Selection of the Book of the Month Club and the Quality Paperback Book Club, a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction, a Barnes and Noble Discover Selection, a Book Sense 76 Selection, and one of the Notable Books of 2001 chosen by Publishers Weekly and the New York Times. SLAMMERKIN was published by Harcourt in the US. It has also been translated into Dutch and Greek.

Kissing The Witch

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: HarperTrophy; Reprint edition (April 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0064407721
ISBN-13: 978-0064407724

First published in 1997, Kissing the Witch is a sequence of thirteen re-imagined fairytales, inspired by traditional European sources (Brothers Grimm, Perrault, Hans Anderson). Published for adults in the UK and for young adults in the US, it was shortlisted for a James Tiptree Award, and named an ALA Popular Paperback for Young Adults. KISSING THE WITCH has also been published in Dutch, Catalan and Italian.

Hood

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (2 Mar 1995)
ISBN-10: 0241134439
ISBN-13: 978-0241134436

Hood is a novel about bereavement and the closet, which follows Pen, a Dublin schoolteacher, through the first week after the death of her on-off lover of thirteen years, Cara. HOOD has been published in the US by HarperCollins and Alyson. It has been translated into Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew and French. Winner of the 1997 American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award for Literature.

Stir Fry

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (27 Jan 1994)
ISBN-10: 0241134420
ISBN-13: 978-0241134429

Stirfry is a coming-of-age novel about Maria, a seventeen-year-old girl from rural Ireland who comes to university in Dublin and accidentally moves in with a lesbian couple. Stirfry has also been published in the US (by both HarperCollins and Alyson) and translated into Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. Lambda Literary Award Finalist 1994.