Award-winning author Emma Donoghue poses in her home town of London, Ont. on Sept. 6, 2016.Despite reaching a level of both critical and commercial success that's rare among authors, Emma Donoghue makes no assumption that all readers are fully engrossed by her prose. The Irish-Canadian writer behind "Room" says she approaches each new project mindful that modern life threatens to pull the attention of most busy readers towards other distractions, guessing that a good chuck of her readers might be reading her books "for 10 minutes on the bus and then 10 minutes before bed." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley