Room

'I've never read a more heart-burstingly, gut wrenchingly compassionate novel ... As for sweet, bright, funny Jack, I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel and never let him go.' -- The Daily Mail 'This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love, all the while giving us a fresh, expansive eye on the world in which we live.' -- The New York Times Book Review 'Startlingly original and moving ... Endearing and as utterly compelling as The Lovely Bones.' -- The Scotsman 'This book will break your heart ... It is the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read.' -- The Irish Times
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Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, Emma Donoghue is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic). She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one eye-opening year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin (unfortunately, without learning to actually speak French). Emma then moved to England, and in 1997 received her PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. From the age of 23, she has earned her living as a writer, and has been lucky enough to never have an 'honest job' since she was sacked after a single summer month as a chambermaid. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 Emma settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with Chris Roulston and their son Finn and daughter Una. Ellen Archer is an acclaimed audiobook narrator and winner of a coveted Audie Award for For the Love of a Dog. Her recent audiobooks include the New York Times bestseller Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami. Producers and publishers describe Ellen as versatile, warm, intimate, fresh, fun, intelligent and sultry. She easily covers the spectrum between familiar and conversational and more authoritative and aggressive deliveries. Suzanne Toren has appeared on and off Broadway, and in regional theatres around the US. Suzanne is a highly acclaimed, award-winning narrator of hundreds of audiobooks.

She has been featured frequently in AudioFile Magazine, as an Earphone Award winner, and as a Narrator of the Year. She has twice been nominated for an Audie Award for her narration. Robert Petkoff is an award-winning American stage actor known for his work in Shakespearean productions and more recently on the New York City musical theatre stage. Robert has performed on Broadway, the West End, in regional theatre, and has done work in film and television. He was featured as Perchik in the Tony award-nominated 1994 revival cast of Fiddler on the Roof but is perhaps best known for his role as Tateh in the 2009 revival of Ragtime on Broadway. Robert has also provided the voices for over two dozen audiobooks, winning awards for his reading of Michael Koryta's So Cold the River. Michal was an accomplished singer and composer and the voice of several anime cartoon characters, including Annalise in the new Speed Racer: The Next Generation.
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