A major film starring Brie Larson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a story of boundless maternal love. Read by a full cast of narrators.
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there’s a world outside . . .
Told in Jack’s voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible . . .
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
© 2010 Macmillan Digital Audio (Audiobook): 9780230755161
Release date
Audiobook: 3 September 2010
A major film starring Brie Larson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a story of boundless maternal love. Read by a full cast of narrators.
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there’s a world outside . . .
Told in Jack’s voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible . . .
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
© 2010 Macmillan Digital Audio (Audiobook): 9780230755161
Release date
Audiobook: 3 September 2010
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Sunitha
7 Sept 2020
The story through the eyes of the child is so believable and endearing and terribly sad, but yet heartwarming in his innocence and the steadfast love of his mother, which finally makes for a happy ending.
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