The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world.
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.
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
Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. Jack moved me greatly. His voice, his story, his innocence, his love for Ma combine to create something very unusual and, I think, something very important . . . Room deserves to reach the widest possible audience. -- John Boyne
I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before. -- Anita Shreve
- Winner of National Book Awards Paperback of the Year 2011 (UK)
- Winner of Commonwealth Foundation Writer's Prize for Best Book 2011 (UK)
- Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2010 (UK)
- Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 (UK)
ISBN: 9781529077247
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 28mm
Weight: 304g
432 pages