Amazon Review
'So carefully and originally constructed that it's both hard to put down and profoundly affecting . . . Donoghue has crafted a narrative that moves as breathlessly as a thriller while convincingly portraying how a boy might believe a room is his whole world.' --Sunday Times Book of the Week

'The Man Booker shortlisted novel about an imprisoned child, with horrible intimations of the Fritzl case.' --The Times

'an extraordinarily plausible account of the deprivations of life in a domestic dungeon' --Guardian

'Beautifully written, this moving and ultimately uplifting novel is Donoghue's masterpiece.'
--Gay Community News

'Emma Donoghue's bestseller pulses with fierce intelligence as much as powerful emotion . . . Room seeks and finds a common truth, about the private worlds of language and feeling that we all inhabit.' --Independent

'This tale is a true rollercoaster of emotions and is both touching and tragic.' --No1 Magazine

'Part childhood adventure story, part adult thriller, Room is above all the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read. Emma Donoghue has stared into the abyss, honoured her sources and returned with the literary equivalent of a great Madonna and Child. This book will break your heart.' --The Irish Times
Product Description
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don’t have the key.

Jack and Ma are prisoners.

‘This book will break your heart . . . It is the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read’ Irish Times

‘Startlingly original and moving . . . Endearing and as utterly compelling as THE LOVELY BONES’ Scotsman

‘I’ve never read a more heart-burstingly, gut wrenchingly compassionate novel . . . As for sweet, bright, funny Jack, I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel and never let him go’ Daily Mail

‘This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love, all the while giving us a fresh, expansive eye on the world in which we live’ New York Times Book Review

Fascinating book - I highly recommend it.

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Picked up at meetup today

A wonderful, awe-inspring novel and truly original.

on Bookcrossing stall at Moseley Festival

Was persuaded to take this from Mozfest (didn't take much!).

I brought it on holidayand read it in a day. Then my daughter read it in a day. It's a very different book from anything we've read before (and we read a lot). The reviews say it all.

Am putting it in the library at the hotel where there is a huge collection of books which we are encouraged to swap.

In the Library on the 2nd floor. Sorry the final third is a bit loose-leaf. It was left in full sun for a while.

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