Room (Picador Classic)

With an introduction by John Boyne. Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five abracadabra. Jack lives with his Ma in Room. Room has a single locked door and a skylight and it measures ten feet by ten feet. Jack loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on the screen is truly real - only him Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits there is a world outside. Devastating yet uplifting Room by Emma Donoghue is a luminous portrait of a boundless maternal love. It has sold more than two million copies was a number one bestseller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. Few books have reached modern classic status so swiftly.