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This is the story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He`s looking forward to telling his friends it`s his birthday, too. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways - loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions - his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack`s entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet; as far as he`s concerned, Room is the entire world. He shares this world with his mother, with Plant, and tiny Mouse (though Ma isn`t a fan and throws a book at Mouse when she sees him). There`s TV too, of course - and the cartoon characters he thinks of as his friends - but Jack knows that nothing else he sees on the screen is real. Old Nick, on the other hand, is all too real, but only visits at night - like a bat - when Jack is meant to be asleep and hidden safely in Wardrobe. And only Old Nick has the code to Door, which is otherwise locked...Told in Jack`s voice, "Room" is the story of a mother`s love for her son, and of a young boy`s innocence. Unsentimental yet affecting, devastating yet uplifting, it promises to be the most talked about novel of 2010.
ISBN - 9780330519922
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Pages : 320
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