Room

<p><b>A major film starring Brie Larson.</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.<br><br></b><b>Picador Classics edition with an introduction by John Boyne, author of <i>The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas</i>.</b><br><br><i>Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I'm changed to five, abracadabra.</i><br><br>Jack lives with his Ma in Room. Room has a single locked door and a skylight, and it measures ten feet by ten feet. Jack loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on the screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits there is a world outside.<br><br>Devastating yet uplifting, <i>Room</i> by Emma Donoghue is a luminous portrait of a boundless maternal love. It has sold more than two million copies, was a number one bestseller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes. Few books have reached modern classic status so swiftly.<br><br><b><i>'Room</i> is 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 of <i>The Time Traveler's Wife</i></b></p>