Jack is five. He lives in a single, locked room with his Ma.

Roomby Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.

‘Roomis a book to read in one sitting. When it’s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days’ Audrey Niffenegger, author ofThe Time Traveler’s Wife