Frog Music

Emma Donoghue: ‘Room was the easiest book I ever wrote because it had that really strong central premise. People may be repelled by the idea of a child being locked up in a room. But everybody cares’Picture: Billy Higgins

SIGMUND FREUD has so many memorable phrases it’s hard to know which ones to quote at the appropriate moment. But here’s one that’s worth remembering: “Where such men love, they have no desire, and where they desire they cannot love.”