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The Room

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It’s where he was born and where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. At night, Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case Old Nick comes.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it’s the prison where Old Nick has kept her for seven years, since she was nineteen. Through ingenuity and determination, Ma has created a life for herself and her son, but she knows it’s not enough for either of them. Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s desperation -- and Room can’t contain either of them for much longer...

Told entirely in the inventive, often funny voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of the resilient bond between parent and child, and a brilliantly executed novel about a journey from one world to another.

Learn more about Room at www.roomthebook.com

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who, at 37, has published four novels, including the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historical drama Slammerkin, three books of short stories, two works of literary history, two anthologies and two plays. She has a Ph.D. (on the concept of friendship between men and women in 18th-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. After years of commuting between England, Ireland and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her lover and their two children. Visit the author online at www.emmadonoghue.com

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