Booker selection a childhood dream for Irish hopeful

IRISH author Emma Donoghue said being one of six authors on the Man Booker Prize shortlist is a dream come true.

The writer was nominated for her novel Room – the tale of a five-year-old locked in an 11ft by 11ft space with his mother.

“I’m flabbergasted to get on to the shortlist. I thought the book might have been too populist,” she said.