Room : the unputdownable bestseller that inspired the Oscar-winning film

by Donoghue, Emma | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 07/01/2011 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 416 pages
131 x 198 x 27mm | 296g

Now a major Oscar-winning film starring Brie LarsonShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.

Jack and Ma are prisoners.

Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.

'Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.' – Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife