![]() This is the kind of book that will keep you up at night and make you smarter.' - Cosmopolitan 'With Frog Music, a literary crime novel fixated on human darkness, Donoghue proves herself endlessly inventive. ‘A lush diorama… flashbacks fit into an unsettling whole that demands an immediate reread.’ – Reader’s Digest ‘Heartfelt, affecting, and real.’ – Chicago Tribune ‘Alive, brimming with sin and music’ – New Yorker 'A riveting literary thriller revolving around a brief, unlikely friendship that ends with one dead and the other transformed.' - O, The Oprah Magazine Wherever you live, PLEASE support your local indie bookstore by buying from them either directly or through an indie-friendly hub such as or .uk.įrog Music is available in French, Dutch, Hungarian and Polish. It can also be placed with my other fictions about emigration – Landing and Astray – as well as being an obvious companion piece to Slammerkin, even if it offers a very different angle on the sex trade. Frog Music is my first crime novel, meaning that I’ve written about crimes before, but have never till now offered the reader the particular satisfactions of a mystery with a solution. I have to admit, I so enjoyed writing about a bad mother this time around. ![]() But I still thought of Frog Music as the opposite of Room in that it’s a dirty, messy, sticky-textured period drama – so I was startled by the first review pointing out that both novels hinge on a young woman’s response to giving birth in desperate circumstances. When I finally found the time to get down to it, after Room, my decision to tell the whole story through the eyes of Blanche Beunon (in order to give Jenny a slippery, enigmatic quality) pushed the novel in a direction I hadn’t been expecting: it became a sort of double hunt, for Jenny’s killer and for Blanche’s baby. It has been optioned by Monumental Pictures, with Donoghue writing the screenplay.Ī personal note: I’ve been wanting to write a novel about the murder of Jenny Bonnet since back in the late 1990s. It was a Finalist in the 2015 Bisexual Book Award for Fiction, and an Honor Book in Literature (Stonewall Book Awards 2015). ![]() This is Donoghue's eighth novel and twelfth book of fiction, an instant bestseller in Canada, Ireland, and a New York Times Bestseller. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue’s lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boom town like no other. In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. It’s the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny’s murderer to justice – if he doesn’t track her down first. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic.
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