Mars Room

Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.

Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside- the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson.

As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line – until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.

‘Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers’ STYLIST

‘More knowing about prison life than Orange Is The New Black … so powerful’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Breathtaking’ VOGUE

Shortlisted for the Booker 2018

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Imprint: Vintage UK
Publication date: 07/03/2019