Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel (nominee)
Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghues 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 theres a world outside . . .
Told in Jacks 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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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 theres a world outside . . .
Told in Jacks 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.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. I read the book over two days, desperate to know how their story would end." - John Boyne
"Potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory." - Michael Cunningham
"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
"I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. It's unlike anything I've read before." - Anita Shreve
"Potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory." - Michael Cunningham
"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
"I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. It's unlike anything I've read before." - Anita Shreve
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