Room (Shortlisted For Man Booker Prize For Fiction 2010)

Description: Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. 'This book will break your heart ...It is the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read' - 'Irish Times'. 'Startlingly original and moving ...Endearing and as utterly compelling as 'The Lovely Bones'' - 'Scotsman'. 'I've never read a more heart-burstingly, gut wrenchingly compassionate novel ...As for sweet, bright, funny Jack, I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel and never let him go' - 'Daily Mail'. 'This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love, all the while giving us a fresh, expansive eye on the world in which we live' - 'New York Times Book Review'. Prizes: Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010. Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: International Author of the Year 2010. Author Biography: Born in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who lives in Canada. Her fiction includes includes the bestselling Slammerkin.