Room

Room

Synopsis

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.

"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

"One of the most profoundly affecting books I’ve read in a long time" John Boyne

"Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language . . . Room is unlike anything I’ve ever read before" Anita Shreve

"Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can’t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it’s potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory" Michael Cunningham

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• hard to put down

  Reviewed by Marianne V. | see all reviews by Marianne V.

  28/02/2011

  Emma Donoghues latest novel, Room, is told from the perspective of Jack, a five-year-old boy who has lived his whole life inside Room with his mother, Ma. Having Jack narrate is a clever device: through his innocent eyes and ears, we gradually learn how he and Ma come to be in this situation and what fills their days. We share Jacks thoughts about daily life and his fear at the thought of escape and the attempt to carry it out. Altogether, it makes for horror, humour, hope, suspense and sadness. I really enjoyed this book. I laughed, I cried, and at one stage, the tension was so high, I did the reading equivalent of putting your hands in front of your eyes in a scary movie: I had to walk away for a break. Apart from that, I found it hard to put down and I am sure many will read it in one sitting. Heartbreaking in parts, it was ultimately a truly uplifting novel.
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