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Room

by Emma Donoghue - £8.99  Pan Macmillan (Picador) (2011)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780330519021 | ISBN 10: 0330519026

The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.
 
It’s Jack’s birthday, and he’s excited about turning five.
 
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. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room is a novel like no other.

"Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. 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)

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