Room

A Novel

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Ellen Archer, Michal Friedman, Robert Petkoff

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time.

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

An absorbing listen

At first I thought I wouldn't be able to listen to an entire novel narrated in a child's voice, but I really came to enjoy Jack's wonder and amazement at the world "outside." This is a story of the horror of captivity and the fear of the unknown. Jack's "Ma" does such an incredible job of teaching him things he might never get to experience that the listener knows he will be just fine. A touching and satisfying novel.

Haunting

While I listened to this book several years ago, it still haunts me today. A well told, well thought out story of abuse that shouldn't be taken lightly even though it is written from the perspective of the young child.

Awesome book.

My only serious complaint is the voice they used for Jack... It was terrible casting. Didn't sound like a child in the slightest and it was also just generally an annoying girls "baby" voice. My 11 year old brother could have done a better job.

Good First Audio Book!

If listening to a child read to you is not your thing, you may not enjoy this book; however, I enjoyed the child reading and the story itself. It was genuine and sad and funny. I enjoyed the little perspectives that only a child would have various situations . It's sad to know that situations like Jack's are very real.

Extremely touching.

A hopeful and beautiful piece. Full of magic that questions our sense of reality. Love it!!!!