One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
A 2012 World Book Night selection.
Winner of the Galaxy Paperback of the Year Award 2011.
This was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize but I believed at the time it would never win for it is far too commercial. It’s about a five-year old boy who was born in captivity and knows nothing beyond the room he and his mother live in. Told in his voice it is an extraordinary achievement, very well thought out, highly intriguing and unexpectedly sad.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011.
Winner of the Orange Youth Panel Prize 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 7 April 2011.
Viewers of The TV Book Club have voted Room their favourite Spring read.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 16 Jan 2011.
Winner of the Hughes & Hughes Novel of the Year Award 2010.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy International Author of the Year 2010.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010.
Comparison: Unique, like The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Lovely Bones or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
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.
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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.
Room features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories
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Room was written by Emma Donoghue and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Room has 432 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Collection series
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