I thought that book was amazing- and it is startlingly different from Donoghue's past work. It also gave me a horrible feeling of constant dread, such that I almost couldn't breathe, while reading the first part, because they could have been oh so dead if anything went wrong.

I wondered if it was partly influenced by the poor woman/girl who was imprisoned in the back yard of that miserable shit and his wife- happened in the northwest here somewhere not too many years ago. But I think Donoghue had started her book before the girl escaped with her kids.