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ROOM
 

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Room
is for Finn and Una, my best works.

 

First published 2010 by Picador

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Copyright © Emma Donoghue 2010

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This is a work of fiction. The people, events, circumstances and institutions depicted are fictitious and the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance of any
character to any actual person, whether living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Published in the USA by Little, Brown and Company

Epigraph excerpt from "Danaë" by Simonides. Translated by Richmond Lattimore in
Greek Lyrics
© 1955 by The University of Chicago.

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