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Room


A General Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Psychological Thriller,
  • Mother-Son Relationship,
  • Captivity
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Stories told through a five-year-old's eyes in extreme situations
  • Intense mother-child bonds tested by captivity
  • Narratives where the world is both shelter and prison
Publisher Description

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel.

Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn.

At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years.

Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

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