Harcourt, Inc.
Available: 05/01/07
6.34 x 8.94 · 336 pages
978-0-15-101297-8 CDN $27.95 · cl

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Landing

A Novel

Emma Donoghue

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a 21st-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 has travelled the world. Jude is a 25-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. 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?

“Emma Donoghue is distinguished by her generous sympathy for her characters, sinuous prose and an imaginative range that may soon rival that of A. S. Byatt or Margaret Atwood.” (Publishers Weekly)

EMMA DONOGHUE is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. She has published four novels, three books of short stories, two works of literary history, two anthologies and two plays.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, on 24 October 1969, Donoghue is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue. She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one year in New York at the age of 10. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in 18th-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. Since the age of 23, Donoghue has earned her living as a full-time writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her lover and their son.