“Today I’m five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra. Before that I was three, then two, then one, then zero. ‘Was I minus numbers?’”
From ‘Room’ by Emma Donoghue
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AKIN
FROG MUSIC
THE PULL OF THE STARS
THE WONDER
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Room was a truly astounding read, sat like a stone in my stomach for a week and gave me the longest reading hangover!
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