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|title=Room
|author=Emma Donoghue
|reviewer=Robin Leggett
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=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. A sad situation, lightly and movingly told.
|rating=5
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=320
|publisher=Picador
|date=July 2010
|isbn=978-0330519014
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330519018</amazonuk>|amazonuscover=0330519018|aznuk=0330519018|aznus=<amazonus>0330519018</amazonus>
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'''A ''Times Educational Supplement'' Teachers' Top 100 Book'''
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.
Our thanks to the good folk at Picador for sending this book into our Room for review.
'Room' is on the Man Booker long list for 2010 and reminded me a little of the former Booker winning [[We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver]]. Another book that you might enjoy if you liked this is [[The Book Thief by Markus Zusak]] while if you are getting an unhealthy interest in books set in a single room, then [[The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi]] is equally moving and highly recommended. You might enjoy [[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl]] but we had our reservations.
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|name=Maureen Julian
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|comment=I read Room as one of the World Book Night selection and thought it was great. Ma was so imaginative whilst keeping her little boy occupied. I really loved this book and would love to see the film.
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|name=Margaret Wilde
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|comment=I would not like to take away from you the joy of discovering this books' many treasures for yourself. Let me tell you that it is extremely difficult for me to read a book these days, as I am in constant pain and find it difficult to concentrate, so for me to lose myself in Room and read it in a mere couple of days, entranced by that bright five-year-old child and by the small, wonderful world his inventive, courageous mother created for him, says much for the imaginative pen of Emma Donoghue. If you read this beautifully written book, I think you will find yourself in tears much of the time, but that they are the tears that lift the heart.
Margaret Wilde
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