Category: Contemporary Fiction / Contemporary Fiction

Room

By Emma Donoghue

Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Orange Prize For Fiction. 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. 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 by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.

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