In 2015, TIME Magazine named it one of the 100 best young adult books of all time. Described as “rich and true” by The New York Times, the book was named to the Best Book lists of The Times (London), The Irish Times, The Financial Times, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and the School Library Journal. Her second novel, A Northern Light, set in the Adirondacks of 1906, against the backdrop of an infamous murder, won the Carnegie Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Borders Original Voices Award, and was named a Printz Honor book. The Rose trilogy continued with The Winter Rose and The Wild Rose. Jennifer’s first novel, The Tea Rose, an epic historical novel set in London and New York in the late 19th century, was called “exquisite” by Booklist, “so much fun” by the Washington Post, a “guilty pleasure” by People and was named a Top Pick by the Romantic Times. She grew up in New York State, in Lewis and Westchester counties, and attended the University of Rochester where she majored in English Literature and European History.
She is a co-author of Fatal Throne, which explores the lives of King Henry VIII's six wives, for which she wrote the part of Anna of Cleves, Henry's fourth wife. And so, while Mattie might be just a child herself and while the book is a pleasantly easy read, this is anything but a cheery child’s story.Jennifer Donnelly is the author of thirteen novels - Poisoned, Stepsister, Lost in a Book, These Shallow Graves, Sea Spell, Dark Tide, Rogue Wave, Deep Blue, Revolution, A Northern Light, The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose and The Wild Rose - and Humble Pie, a picture book for children. In fact, it is her well-roundedness that makes her so ideal for Donnelly to use as a sounding board for a number of discussions on topics including childbirth, marriage, racism, adultery, and poverty.
She is everything that I wanted to be at that age and her likeability makes her the perfect narrator for the story.
Mattie is a 16-year-old girl who is determined, strong-willed and has a huge affinity with books. But the novel is told by Mattie Gokey, a young girl who has a dream of becoming a writer but an obligation to stay at home and care for her siblings.īy carefully blending together Grace’s factual story with Mattie’s fictional one, Donnelly’s novel blurs the boundaries between murder, mystery, romance and historical fiction genres – meaning that the types of readers that would love this book are as varied as the stories and topics it covers. Set in 1906, the novel is based on the real-life murder of Grace Brown, a murder that shocked America at the time and is still just as shocking to read about nowadays.
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