The shocking case of Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned and raped his own daughter in Austria, is the bleak inspiration for Room, one of this years' Man Booker Prize-nominated novels.

In the first of her previews of the six shortlisted authors and their books, arts correspondent Rebecca Jones asks author Emma Donoghue about how the heart-rending tale led her to write the novel.

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