{"id":8,"date":"2013-10-03T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/social-work-book-club\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2013-10-24T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T08:22:49","slug":"room","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/social-work-book-club\/books\/room\/","title":{"rendered":"Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Monday 7th October 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Room<\/a>\u00a0is the Man Booker nominated seventh novel by\u00a0Emma Donoghue<\/a>. It tells the story of five year old Jack who lives in a single room with his Ma. Soon it becomes clear Jack has never left Room and that he and Ma are held captive by’Old Nick’. On her website<\/a> Emma Donoghue describes the\u00a0Room\u00a0as being \u00a0‘inspired by\u2026 having kids; the locked room is a metaphor for the claustrophobic, tender bond of parenthood. I borrowed observations, jokes, kid grammar and whole dialogues from our son Finn, who was five while I was writing it.\u00a0Room\u00a0was also inspired by… ancient folk motifs of walled-up virgins who give birth (e.g. Rapunzel), often to heroes (e.g. Dana\u00eb and Perseus).\u00a0\u00a0Room\u00a0was also inspired by\u2026 the Fritzl family\u2019s escape from their dungeon in Austria \u2013 though I doubt I\u2019ll ever use contemporary headlines as a launching point again, since I didn\u2019t like being even occasionally accused of \u2018exploitation\u2019 or tagged \u2018Fritzl writer\u2019.\u00a0 But on the whole, publishing my seventh novel \u2013 and having the great good fortune to win new readers all over the world \u2013 has been a delight<\/em>.’<\/p>\n

At Lancaster a group of social work students and academics met (with the all important cake)<\/p>\n

#lancastersocialwork<\/a> #SWBK<\/a> about to start, we are kicking off early with tea and cake #startasyoumeantogoon<\/a> Follow http:\/\/t.co\/WSfDYsS1UU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Hannah Morgan (@HannahnagroM) October 7, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

to watch the discussion with guest academic Professor Nicky Stanley and then to hold our own discussion. Some of us had prepared with beautiful new stationary<\/p>\n

Ready for @SWBookClub<\/a> on Monday with lovely new notebook #stationarygeek<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/8CnBwg1KnF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Hannah Morgan (@HannahnagroM) October 3, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

@andrewmw83<\/a> was our student ‘tweep’ feeding the lancaster discussion into the twittersphere. @Nim_28<\/a>, @DWswk<\/a> and @Mathew1905<\/a> also contributed to the online discussion.
\nYou can watch the edited highlights of the streamed discussion<\/a>\u00a0and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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