'Room' wins Novel of the Year award

Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 00:00

EOIN BURKE KENNEDY

EMMA DONOGHUE’S Room, inspired by the Josef Fritzl case, has won the Hughes Hughes Novel of the Year Award.

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