Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single locked room. They dont have the key. Jack & Ma are prisoners. This book will break your heart.. . It is the most vivid radiant & beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read
- Irish Times". Startlingly original & moving.. . Endearing & as utterly compelling as " The Lovely Bones"
- " Scotsman". Ive never read a more heart-burstingly gut wrenchingly compassionate novel.. . As for sweet bright funny Jack I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel & never let him go
- " Daily Mail". This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love all the while giving us a fresh expansive eye on the world in which we live
- " New York Times Book Review". See Judys Review See Richards Review See Emma Donoghue talk about her book Reading Group Questions Read our exclusive Q&A with Emma Donoghue Write a Review for Room Judys Review This extraordinary book is very hard to sum up. To read it you have to slide into a place that frees you of normal expectation to help yourself understand the most appalling of situations & yet allow for hope love & redemption. Room is told through the eyes of a five year old boy Jack. He & his mother are held captive by a monster a man who kidnapped a nineteen year old girl & held her in a one-room shed locked & sound-proofed. For seven years he has systematically raped her & Jack is a result. So far so horrible & reminiscent of the recent tragedy in Austria where Josef Fritzl repeatedly raped his own daughter after imprisoning her in a cellar fathering many children by her. But Room is not quite like that. It is a story of hope & great love. Jack is adored by his young Ma who tries desperately to bring him up in as normal & loving way possible in their terrifying circumstances. & she succeeds. Jack is a sweet loveable remarkably normal boy. Before their eventual escape she manages to give him an enormous sense of security. Hugely heart-warming is the spirit of Ma: a strong young woman who has somehow transcended her appalling situation & degrading imprisonment to become as warm & protective a mother as any woman in a more stable & conventional environment could hope to be. Richards Review How would any of us react in a moment of mortal danger? In a plane crash? In the heat & smoke of the battlefield? Would we "



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ROOM 13 Somebody was in there. Somebody
- or some thing. There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel where Fliss
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The Angry Young Men movement featuring such stars as Kingsley Amis is perfectly illustrated through the iconic figure of Joe Lampton. The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth fast cars & glamorous women. But the price of success is high & betrayal & tragedy strike as Joe pursues his goals. ...

It is Halloween night & the local museum in King's Lynn is preparing for an unusual event
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A Room of Ones Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay & perhaps Virginia Woolfs best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays bare the woman artists struggle for a voice since throughout history she has been denied the social & economic independence assumed by men. Woolfs prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a mans she must have an independent income & a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis & a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant & relevant in the 21st century. The novel explores these issues more personally through the character of Rachel Vinrace a young woman whose voyage out to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers men & women. As she begins to understand her place in the world she finds the happiness of love but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final undertow of the novel is tragic as in some of her finest writing she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit. ...

The witch & her cat fly happily over forests rivers & mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat bow & w&. They are retrieved by a dog a bird & a frog & each animal asks for a ride on the broom. They climb on one after the next until the broom is so heavy that it snaps in two! What will happen next as they tumble into a bog & meet a greedy dragon? ...

The witch & her cat fly happily over forests rivers & mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat bow & w&. They are retrieved by a dog a bird & a frog & each animal asks for a ride on the broom. They climb on one after the next until the broom is so heavy that it snaps in two! What will happen next as they tumble into a bog & meet a greedy dragon? ...

The witch & her cat fly happily over forests rivers & mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witchs hat bow & w&. They are retrieved by a dog a bird & a frog & each animal asks for a ride on the broom. They climb on one after the next until the broom is so heavy that it snaps in two! What will happen next as they tumble into a bog & meet a greedy dragon? ...

The witch & her cat fly happily over forests rivers & mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witchs hat bow & w&. They are retrieved by a dog a bird & a frog & each animal asks for a ride on the broom. They climb on one after the next until the broom is so heavy that it snaps in two! What will happen next as they tumble into a bog & meet a greedy dragon? ...