by Emma Donoghue · ISBN 9788466364591
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Room is a novel by Emma Donoghue that tells the story of Jack, a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in a room. Jack has never left the room and believes it is the only world that exists. His mother does everything she can to create a normal life for Jack in the room, but she knows they can't stay there forever. The novel is narrated from Jack's perspective, which gives a unique and innocent voice to the story. It is a moving story about love, survival and freedom.
Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, Donoghue won the coveted Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians.
