Room

by Donoghue, Emma | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 17/02/2022 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of the Picador Collection series
Paperback | 432 pages
131 x 196 x 37mm | 308g

Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue’s Room, is a devastating portrait of a boundless maternal love.

A major film starring Brie Larson.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there’s a world outside . . .

Told in Jack’s voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible .

Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.