By Emma Donoghue
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.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, Emma Donoghue is the youngest of eight children. She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, and in 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin. She then moved to England and in 1997 received her PhD from the University of Cambridge. In 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with Chris Roulston and their two children, son Finn (7) and daughter Una (4).
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