The Orange Room

Rosie Price

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English

Harvill Secker
02 July 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction: special features; Domestic violence

For readers of Coco Mellors and Megan Nolan, a poised, vivid and deeply relatable novel about a young woman finding her way back to herself - from the author of 2019's buzz debut What Red Was

Rhianne expresses her inner world through line and colour. This summer, though, back home in the west country, she is seeking distraction in heat and noise. Art school in London has ripped away her confidence and sense of safety- better for now to be swept along by the hotel kitchen where she's working, where the pressure is high and the dangers are more obvious. Sharp knives. Hot plates. Little time to think.

Her dad, Dominic, is concerned for Rhianne but relieved to have her close. Her step-mum, Melissa, is on alert, though trying to tread carefully. But then there's Callum, just across the chef's pass, with his controlled manner and intent gaze. There's attraction. There's everything that comes next.

From the acclaimed author of What Red Was, The Orange Room is about the narrow line between passion and control, and an insidious kind of violence that is difficult to name. Asking what it means to see clearly, and what courage it takes to be seen, it is the story of a tenacious young woman who - through her art, her strength, her determination - finds her way back to herself.

By: Rosie Price
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781787304109
ISBN 10: 1787304108
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rosie Price is the author of the highly acclaimed debut What Red Was, an Observer New Voices selection. The Orange Room is her second novel. She lives in London.

Reviews for The Orange Room

The Orange Room is a reminder that abusive relationships don’t have to involve smashed glasses or black eyes. The deliberate diminishing of a partner, the dimming of their inner light, is something so many of us have either experienced or witnessed in a friend – and Price reveals it, here, with tender care and quietly devastating accuracy * Observer * As Rhianne navigates the pressures of work and relationships, particularly with a fellow chef, she begins to rediscover herself through her art. The novel explores themes of visibility, fear, and personal growth -- Pia Brynteson * Service 95 * I read The Orange Room as if in a trance. Price’s hypnotic prose is alive to the ways we navigate aloneness and connection, damage and repair. A beautifully observed, deeply humane novel. -- Marina Kemp