Room 706

By: Ellie Levenson

Narrated by: Hattie Morahan

A married woman is trapped with her lover in a hotel under siege: If she knew it would end this way, would it ever have begun?

Kate’s children and her husband are her whole world. Since marrying young, she’s dedicated her life to making her little family grow. But in the last few years, she’s carved out something just for herself: hours stolen away with another man. After one midday tryst with her lover, Kate’s double life is thrown into chaos when she turns on the TV to find their hotel has been overtaken by an unnamed, dangerous group. As Kate’s life hangs in the balance, she is faced with “a gripping exploration of the murky grey areas of marriage, relationships, and womanhood” (Hazel Hayes).

Room 706 is a “tense exploration of desire” (Alina Grabowski). Raw, unsettling, and deeply human, it compels you to ask: Would I feel guilt, regret...or relief?

“Poignant, immersive, and utterly human, I adored this brilliant novel.”
—Sarah Jessica Parker, SJP Lit

The identity of a woman versus motherhood

Looking beyond the infidelity of an affair, this book looks into your soul as a professional independent woman and then transforming into motherhood while maintaining sense of self.

Provocative, deep, contemplative

This is not a mindless twisty turny thriller - it is much more substantive, thoughtful and emotionally challenging. There is a great plot with a likely unsatisfying yet fitting ending. More prose than twists. I loved it, just don’t come in with expectations because it is unconventional given standards of other books in this genre. If you listen through that lens, I hope you’re pleasantly, yet uncomfortably surprised as I was

Disappointed

I trudged through the whole book just wanting to know how it ended only to be left completely frustrated.