The Orange Room
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  • Published: 28 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529931754
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99

The Orange Room

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28 Oct 2025
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2 Jul 2024
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4 Jul 2024
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4 Jul 2024
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4 Aug 2024
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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.
  • Published: 28 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529931754
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Rosie Price

Rosie Price is 26 years old and lives in London. What Red Was is her debut novel.

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Praise for The Orange Room

Price reveals that the deliberate diminishing of a partner with tender care and quietly devastating accuracy

Observer

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

Subtly subversive, utterly memorable

Helen Mort

Price builds a creeping sense of entrapment with delicate nuance. Unafraid to confront toxic power ... Stunning

Amy Beashel

A beautifully tender and intelligent exploration of trauma, recovery and desire. With elegant prose, pin-sharp observations and real, complex characters, The Orange Room is masterful ... Will stay with me for a very long time.

Sara Nisha Adams
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