Room By Emma Donoghue Paperback

Room by Emma Donoghue is a novel centred on five-year-old Jack and his mother, Ma. This edition is in paperback format.

Key details

• Author: Emma Donoghue
• Format: paperback

Synopsis

For Jack, Room is his entire world: the place where he was born and where he and Ma eat, sleep, play and learn. Each night, Ma shuts him in the wardrobe, where he is expected to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

For Ma, Room is a prison where she has been held for seven years, yet she has built a life for her son within its eleven-by-eleven-foot space. As Jack’s curiosity grows alongside Ma’s desperation, she realises that Room cannot contain them for much longer. The story is described as shocking, riveting and exhilarating, focusing on love in harrowing circumstances and the bond between a mother and child.