Room Lib/E

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It s where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack s imagination the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells, the imaginary world projected through the TV, the coziness of Wardrobe below Ma s clothes, where she tucks him in safely at night in case Old Nick comes.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it s the prison where she s been held since she was nineteen for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But Jack s curiosity is building alongside her own desperation and she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Told in the poignant and funny voice of Jack, Room is a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child. It is a shocking, exhilarating, and riveting novel but always deeply human and always moving. Room is a place you will never forget."