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With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me through seven or eight drafts and it was just getting worse and worse, and then the film was never made.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
Literary Historian
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Dublin city
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