Room
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4.2 • 11 Ratings
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
A major film starring Brie Larson.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a story of boundless maternal love. Read by a full cast of narrators.
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 . . .
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
Customer Reviews
Stand out book
Fantastic. What a perfectly written book with amazing observations of the mind of a 5 year old & the freedoms that we should all cherish. A look at the way we live our lives and how lucky we are. I could not fault the author‘s understanding of child psychology which was humorous and entertaining. The horror of what Ma had gone through was so well handled; believable and appalling in equal measures.
I can’t praise this book enough & it is a must read/listen for anyone who has ever been 5 years old!