It’s Jack’s birthday, and he’s excited about turning five.

Jack lives with his Ma in Room, that includes a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 foot by 11 ft. He loves viewing TV, as well as the toon characters he phone calls friends, but he understands that nothing he views on screen is truly real – just him, Ma and the items in Space. Until the day Ma admits that there’s a world outside .

Informed in Jack’s tone of voice, Room may be the story of the mother and kid whose love let us them survive the difficult. Unsentimental and occasionally funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is normally a book like no various other.