Emma Donoghue was born in Ireland in 1969 and lived in England before moving to Canada. Emma writes fiction (including the bestselling Slammerkin), drama for stage and radio, and literary history; Room is her seventh novel.
By Emma Donoghue
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Room
Emma Donoghue
Winner of the WHSmith Paperback of the Year
Audrey Niffenegger,
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010
It's Jack's birthday, and he is excited about turning five. He 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 noting 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 . . .
‘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
Room by Emma Donoghue has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011.