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Since the film adaptation is making so many headlines, our blast from the past this month is [[Room by Emma Donoghue ]]. It's the morning of Jack's fifth birthday, but Jack is no ordinary boy. He and his Ma have been imprisoned by the character known only as 'Old Nick' in a single room for all Jack's life. True he has a television, but his mother has convinced him that those people are not real. The room is all Jack has ever known - and in it he has developed his own attachment to things like Bed, Rug, Table, Skylight and Wardrobe where he sleeps. The first victim of incarceration, it seems, is the definite article. Narrated in the voice of five year old Jack, this is a haunting, innovative and brave story that will stay with you long after the final page. You should read it.

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