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.
An emotionally intense novel about a mother and her precocious five-year-old son who are held captive in a small shed, and their unbreakable bond and determination to escape. "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" -San Francisco ChronicleTo five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.Room is an award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade. At once shocking, riveting, exhilarating - a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
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It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years.
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 Little, Brown and Company
Room has 352 pages
