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Much hyped on acquisition and by its publisher since (and longlisted for the Booker prize last week), Room is set to be one of the big literary hits of the year. Certainly it is Emma Donoghue's breakout novel, but, seemingly "inspired" by Josef Fritzl's incarceration of his daughter Elisabeth, and the cases of Natascha Kampusch and Sabine Dardenne, it's hard not to feel wary: what is such potentially lurid and voyeuristic material doing in the hands of a novelist known for quirky, stylish literary fiction?

It is a brave act for a writer, but happily one that Donoghue, still only 40 but on her seventh novel, has the talent to pull off. For Room is in many ways what its publisher claims it to be: a novel like no other. The first half takes place entirely within the 12-foot-square room in which a young woman has spent her last seven years since being abducted aged 19. Raped repeatedly, she now has a five-year-old boy, Jack, and it is with his voice that Donoghue tells their story.

And what a voice it is. "Ma" has clearly spent his five years devoting every scrap of mental energy to teaching, nurturing and entertaining her boy, preserving her own sanity in the process. To read this book is to stumble on a completely private world. Every family unit has its own language of codes and in-jokes, and Donoghue captures this exquisitely. Ma has created characters out of all aspects of their room - Wardrobe, Rug, Plant, Meltedy Spoon. They have a TV and Jack loves Dora the Explorer, but Ma limits the time they are allowed to watch it for fear of turning their brains to mush. They do "phys ed" every morning, keep to strict mealtimes, make up poems, sing Lady Gaga and Kylie, and most importantly, Ma has a seemingly endless supply of stories - from the Berlin Wall and Princess Di ("Should have worn her seatbelt," says Jack) to fairytales like Hansel and Gretel to hybrids in which Jack becomes Prince Jackerjack, Gullijack in Lilliput: his mother's own fairytale hero. And really, what is a story of a kidnapped girl locked in a shed with her long-haired innocently precocious boy if not the realisation of the most macabre fairytale?

Donoghue has not been so crass as to make light of their plight: at times it's almost impossible not to turn away in horror. When Ma's kidnapper comes to the room in the evening, she makes Jack hide in the wardrobe, where he listens as they get into bed: "I always have to count till he makes that gaspy sound and stops." Ma has days where she is "gone" to blank-eyed depression and Jack, left to his own devices, reveals: "Mostly I just sit." But the grotesque is consistently balanced with the uplifting and there is a moment, halfway through the novel, where you feel you would fight anyone who tried to wrestle it from your grasp with the same ferocity that Ma fights for Jack, such is the author's power to make out of the most vile circumstances something absorbing, truthful and beautiful.

Thereafter, the setting moved to "Outside", the relationship diluted by alternative voices, by the number of new things with which Jack has to deal, the novel loses some of its intensity and has the more familiar feel of the naive child narratives of Roddy Doyle and Mark Haddon. Jack's introduction to the confusing world of freedom is handled with incredible skill and delicacy - as is his first separation from Ma. But the novel, like Jack, now has to follow a more logical and straightforward path.

For me, the rhythm of Ma and Jack's speech bears traces of the author's native Irish brogue, though the second half reveals the setting to be America (Donoghue now lives in Canada). But this only adds to the strange, dislocating appeal of Room. In the hands of this audacious novelist, Jack's tale is more than a victim-and-survivor story: it works as a study of child development, shows the power of language and storytelling, and is a kind of sustained poem in praise of motherhood and parental love.
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As the author of Room, a story about a mother and child held captive for years in a garden shed, Emma Donoghue mapped the mental toll of extreme confinement long before coronavirus lockdowns.

Her character Ma endured boredom, frustration, anguish and worse - yet somehow created a rich, nurturing environment for her son.

The story, a bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film, has found new resonance in the era of lockdowns, enclosure and home schooling.

Published in 2010, Room was shortlisted for the Booker prize, sold millions of copies and was made into a 2015 film that won multiple awards, including an Oscar for its star, Brie Larson. Partly inspired by the Josef Fritzl case in Austria, it tells the story of a predator who abducts and imprisons a young woman in a converted shed. Repeatedly raped, she gives birth to a child, Jack, who grows up knowing only the room.

Reviewers praised the book and film for transforming a grim subject into a compelling depiction of resilience, with Ma creating a routine of physical exercise, games, chores, personal hygiene, education, storytelling and rationed TV that keeps her and Jack healthy and sane.

Quarantines to control Covid-19 hardly compare with the pair's plight but have nevertheless forced families around the world to devise new routines.

Donoghue, who grew up in Ireland and lives in Canada with her partner and two teenage children, said the restrictions were toughest on the poor and those with young children.

"It's made me so grateful that our kids are not small. Because when you're in lockdown with a small child it's the most intense. You can run through all your tricks and it's still only 9am. Children cycle through interests and moods so quickly - it can seem like months and it's not even lunchtime."

One lesson from writing Room was that a family unable to leave home needed to find a daily rhythm, she said. "The rules are not set by social interaction any more. You should do certain things at set times - it can give a lovely sense of rhythm and ritual to your day, otherwise you might feel you're living in a weird delirium. Routine creates a type of hammock you can rest in."

Another tip: give your fellow lockdowners, be they children or adults, space to grow and change. "Some people at the outset maybe enjoyed cocooning together but three weeks later one wants to go for a walk on their own listening to music. Being flexible is important."

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Will there be a second wave of coronavirus?

Epidemics of infectious diseases behave in different ways but the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people is regarded as a key example of a pandemic that occurred in multiple waves, with the latter more severe than the first. It has been replicated - albeit more mildly - in subsequent flu pandemics.

How and why multiple-wave outbreaks occur, and how subsequent waves of infection can be prevented, has become a staple of epidemiological modelling studies and pandemic preparation, which have looked at everything from social behaviour and health policy to vaccination and the buildup of community immunity, also known as herd immunity.

Is there evidence of coronavirus coming back in a second wave?

This is being watched very carefully. Without a vaccine, and with no widespread immunity to the new disease, one alarm is being sounded by the experience of Singapore, which has seen a sudden resurgence in infections despite being lauded for its early handling of the outbreak.

Although Singapore instituted a strong contact tracing system for its general population, the disease re-emerged in cramped dormitory accommodation used by thousands of foreign workers with inadequate hygiene facilities and shared canteens.

Singapore's experience, although very specific, has demonstrated the ability of the disease to come back strongly in places where people are in close proximity and its ability to exploit any weakness in public health regimes set up to counter it.

What are experts worried about?

Conventional wisdom among scientists suggests second waves of resistant infections occur after the capacity for treatment and isolation becomes exhausted. In this case the concern is that the social and political consensus supporting lockdowns is being overtaken by public frustration and the urgent need to reopen economies.

The threat declines when susceptibility of the population to the disease falls below a certain threshold or when widespread vaccination becomes available.

In general terms the ratio of susceptible and immune individuals in a population at the end of one wave determines the potential magnitude of a subsequent wave. The worry right now is that with a vaccine still months away, and the real rate of infection only being guessed at, populations worldwide remain highly vulnerable to both resurgence and subsequent waves.

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Donoghue said she felt privileged being able to enjoy outdoor walks and order food online, unlike Ma or many real families mired in poverty. "There are lots of situations that keep people in a room counting the cans."

The pandemic forced the cancellation of Room's North American theatrical debut - Donoghue has adapted it for the stage - but injected unexpected currency to her new novel.

The Pull of the Stars, to be published by Picador in July, is about a nurse, a doctor and a volunteer helper who care for patients in a Dublin maternity hospital during the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed tens of millions.

Donoghue started it in 2018 and finished last October, months before the Covid-19 outbreak. "I'd no idea what was coming. I didn't realise this would be a big deal until March. As soon as I realised that a pandemic was happening I was a bit sheepish that people might think I threw this novel together in a few weeks to capitalise."

The sense of a modern urban plague drew her to the story. "This was people going to work on the tram trying to not cough on each other."

Admirable healthcare workers doing their job was not a bland storyline when random death surrounded them, said Donoghue. "My characters can afford to joke and be good to each other because the next moment they could be choking on their own sputum."

Fictional accounts of apocalypse tended to overdo the panic and people behaving badly, said Donoghue. "Of course there is bad behaviour but in times of extreme danger people's natural goodness does show."

Coronavirus was forcing people apart but social subtleties and good manners endured, she said. "Here we may cross the road to avoid each other but we still do a nod and a bow."
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As the author of Room, a story about a mother and child held captive for years in a garden shed, Emma Donoghue mapped the mental toll of extreme confinement long before coronavirus lockdowns. Her character Ma endured boredom, frustration, anguish and worse - yet somehow created a rich, nurturing environment for her son.

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If you're going to read one book this year, make it Emma Donoghue's . Unlike any novel you've ever read, Room is an enthralling experience, told from the perspective of five-year old Jack.

Slowly and deliberately, the reader is made aware of the nightmarish world in which Jack and his Ma live. Ma, snatched from the street at just nineteen years old, has been held captive in Room, for seven years.

The first half of the novel revolves around Jack's belief that Room is the entire world, the pieces of furniture and structure of Room itself, are characters to Jack, a well-spoken and observant five year old boy. But in between the lines of child-dialogue and vivid imagination are some of a parent's darkest fears realised.

This book offers an incredibly insightful vision with a mastered point of view; never before has a modern literary classic captured the innocence, creativity and resilience of a child so well.

Questions of education, the continuation of childhood and the confronting symptoms of PTSD, are handled with great humility by the author, leaving the reader with deeply founded respect and empathy for the characters.

In their prison, Jack's mother, Ma, has created a routine for the two of them. The day is split up into a multitude of tasks and lessons including everything from breakfast and reading to physical education and screaming through the skylight for help.

All of these activities however, are told with the imagination and language of a five-year old who is unaware of the world as we know it.

I'd love to watch TV all the time, but it rots our brains. Before I came down from Heaven Ma left it on all day long and got turned into a zombie that's like a ghost but walks 'thump thump.' So now she always switches off after one show, then the cells multiply again in the day and we can watch another show after dinner and grow more brains in our sleep."

The character Ma has made some notable choices in how she's raised Jack. He's been brought up to believe that the sound-proofed shed, the 'Room' he and Ma inhabit, is the only reality that exists. He believes for instance, that Ma is the only woman in the world, that he is the only 'Jack'...

This decision by Ma, however controversial, allows Jack to have a relatively normal childhood. It because of this decision that Jack is a happy, inquisitive child, like any other - he is kept ignorant of the horror in which he lives, for his own protection.

Donoghue also delicately explores the nature of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and how the characters cope once they're in the outside world (Jack for the first time in his life, and Ma, after having been held captive for seven years)...

Want to go to Bed."
"They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while."
"No. Bed."
"You mean in Room?" Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes.
"Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now."

Not only has the author created such a compelling, thrilling story but these characters truly are one of a kind. In particular, Jack's observations about the outside world, are inspired:

Everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear."

In truth, we could talk about Room forever, that's how important this novel is. Emotionally-gripping, disturbed, with a glimmer of hope, Room will stay with you long after you put it back on your bookshelf.

You can check out our interview with author, Emma Donoghue here.

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If you're going to read one book this year, make it Emma Donoghue's . Unlike any novel you've ever read, Room is an enthralling experience, told from the perspective of five-year old Jack. Slowly and deliberately, the reader is made aware of the nightmarish world in which Jack and his Ma live.

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De politie heeft de boerderij doorzocht en ontdekte volgens RTV Drenthe achter een kast in de woonkamer een trap. In een ruimte daaronder zouden de vader en vijf kinderen wonen. De vader bleek enkele jaren geleden een herseninfarct te hebben gehad en lag in bed, meldt de regionale omroep.

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De politie heeft de familie uit huis gehaald en ondergebracht op een recreatiepark, terwijl de woning is gecontroleerd op onder meer brandveiligheid. De kinderen zouden geen idee hebben dat er ook nog andere mensen op de wereld bestaan.

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