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|title=Rooms
|author=Lauren Oliver
|publisher=Hodder and Stoughton
|date=September 2014
|website=http://www.laurenoliverbooks.com
|summary=Renowned YA Fiction writer Lauren Oliver makes her adult début - with captivating characters, a brilliant concept, and a haunting plot that subverts expectations and avoids cliché at all times. A stunning read.
|cover=1444760769
|aznuk=1444760769
|aznus=B00J3798KO
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Alice and Sandra are dead. Ghosts trapped in the house they lived and died in, they have bickered and squabbled for years. Distraction for them comes in the form of a real, live family - Caroline, her daughter Minna, son Trenton, and Minna's daughter Amy. Arriving to mourn and sort affairs following the death of Minna and Trenton's father, arguments and old wounds soon open up.
Lauren Oliver is clearly a writer of immense talent - the ending of this book made me cry, and I'm still not entirely sure if it was due to the emotional ending, or the fact that I was finishing this brilliant book. I'll be recommending it to anyone and everyone - so thank you to the publishers for sending a copy.
For those wishing to read more by the author (I shall certainly be doing so!), [[Delirium by Lauren Oliver|Delirium]] seems a great place to start. For another fantastic example of a family dealing with grief and buried secrets, [[Notes from an From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale]] is a must read.
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