Room
Emma Donoghue
2010 Nominee
Man Booker Prize
2011 Nominee
Orange Prize for Fiction
2011 Winner
National Book Awards Paperback of the Year
2011 Winner
Commonwealth Foundation Writer's Prize for Best Book
17 February 2022
9781529077247Synopsis
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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 by Emma Donoghue is a story of boundless maternal love.
A major film starring Brie Larson.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
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
