by Emma Donoghue · Tsentrpoligraf · tapa dura · ISBN 9785227043221
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«Zapechatannoe pismo» is the historical fiction novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Tsentrpoligraf in hardcover (416 pages, in Russian).
Helen, beautiful and bold, is discovered by her husband, Admiral Codrington, after a slip. Helen hatches an intrigue with her friend Emily Faithfull to avoid divorce and scandal. The triangle between husband, wife and friend sustains a detective plot, inspired by the divorce case 'Codrington v Codrington and Anderson' (1864).
The original work, The Sealed Letter, was published in 2008. It was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian fiction.
For readers of historical fiction and Victorian drama based on real events; also works well in reading clubs.
Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, Donoghue won the coveted Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians.
