Author: Donoghue, Emma
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 17 February 2022 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Picador Collection' series.
Paperback | 432 pages
131 x 196 x 37 | 308g
Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue’s 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 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 .
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.