Room

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single locked room. They dont have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. This book will break your heart.. .It is the most vivid radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read - Irish Times". Startlingly original and moving.. .Endearing and 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 and 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 and yet allow for hope love and redemption. Room is told through the eyes of a five year old boy Jack. He and his mother are held captive by a monster a man who kidnapped a nineteen year old girl and held her in a one-room shed locked and sound-proofed. For seven years he has systematically raped her and Jack is a result. So far so horrible and 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 and great love. Jack is adored by his young Ma who tries desperately to bring him up in as normal and loving way possible in their terrifying circumstances. And 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 and degrading imprisonment to become as warm and protective a mother as any woman in a more stable and 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
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