Room by Emma Donaghue. Initially, I resisted reading this because I knew it was being made into a film and I thought it was going to be yet another flimsy novel that was only ‘good’ because it was on the silver screen. Anyway, in another book club, it was the first book thrown into the mix.
The book is narrated by Jack, a 5 year old who has been confined to one room with his mother his whole life. Jack believes that this one room is the entire world and that everything else only exists on television.
Despite the narrator being a child, which is always difficult to pull off as a writer, she’s definitely pulled it off. Jack is naive and innocent, struggles to communicate and understand reality, yet I felt that I was living the journey this story takes you on, with him.
It’s brilliant and, I suspect, will become a true classic
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