Praise for THE SEALED LETTER:Donoghue weaves an engrossing and. quite funny melodrama about a bad, bad girl who bursts the seams of this corseted world. part "Forever Amber" and part clockwork courtroom drama, with bawdy undercurrents of forbidden love thrown in for good measure. All in all, a deliciously wicked little romp, complete with a clever twist at the end." - The Seattle Times "Emma Donoghue's triangle of real-life protagonists presents us with a quintessentially Victorian tableau. mid-Victorian London feels so real you can almost taste it." - Washington Post Book World "A fascinating tour de force, a brilliant unraveling of closely held secrets and brutal betrayals. A case of Dangerous Liaisons with yet another layer of Victorian outrage.

" -curledupwithagoodbook.com"Donoghue blends a true case and period detail into an intriguing tale of mystery and passion." - The Oregonian "Donoghue recreates grim 19th-century London - relieved by whiffs of exotic Malta - with vividness and authority. She makes 150-year-old events immediate, evoking hot, sweaty flesh under rustling layers of bombazine and conveying powerful sense of vertigo as her characters pitch headlong into the abyss of notoriety. What could have been mere Victorian melodrama resonates here with emotional truth." - Quill & Quire (Canada)"[A] cozily lurid new novel." - The International Herald Tribune "Good lines there are in abundance. And in the end, 'The Sealed Letter' provides both the titillating entertainment readers like Helen and Fido crave and the more sober exploration of truth, commitment and betrayal Harry might appreciate.

Donoghue's sympathy for all three of her central characters emerges through intimate narration and lifts the novel out of the tabloid muck, despite the public shaming Harry, Helen and Fido experience. There is, as Fido puts it, 'so much to say, and littleof it speakable.'" - The New York Times Book Review ".