**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE **

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE **

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION

• 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.*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.

Devastating yet uplifting,* Room * 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.