Review- Room

I can't say enough good about this amazing book.

You might think the story of a teenaged girl held as a sex slave for seven years in a windowless shed, told by the five year old son she gave birth to alone would be morose or difficult. But Emma Donoghue has managed to find the voice of this little boy in a way that rings so awesomely true, I know exactly why it's had so much hype and has already been nominated for the Man Booker prize. I read it in one sitting, simply unable to put it down.

The story is told by Jack, whose mother was snatched from a street on her way to school seven years previous, and who is visited most nights by a man Jack calls either 'him' or 'Old Nick'. They manage to escape, and the rest of the story is about their time once they get Outside.

If Room is not nominated for the Governor General awards later today, I'll be very confused.
Get yourself a copy- it's truly magnificent.