Praise for Room: ‘Emma Donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness’ Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife‘One of the most profoundly affecting books I’ve read in a long time’ John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas‘Sophisticated in outlook and execution . . . Utterly plausible, vividly described’ New York Times‘Absorbing, truthful and beautiful . . . it is a kind of sustained poem in praise of motherhood and parental love’ Observer‘Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction’ Irish Times