"A woman must have money and a room of her own." So said Virginia Woolf, but in this gorgeously wrought, debut novel, Jo Hamya shows that in the twenty-first century, what a woman needs is an apartment of her own, the ultimate mark of financial stability, unattainable for many. Set over the course of one year, Three Rooms follows a young woman as she moves from a rented room at Oxford, where she's working as a teaching assistant; to a stranger's sofa, all she can afford as a temp at a society magazine; to her childhood home, where she's been forced to return, jobless. As politics shift to nationalism, the streets fill with protestors, and news drip-feeds into her phone, she struggles to live a meaningful life on her own terms, unsure if she'll ever be able to afford to do so. Written with creative authority, authenticity, and perfectly sketched characters, Three Rooms "is a spectacular debut novel about womanhood, belonging, and the attempt to carve out a private space to live and work within a hostile world" (Sanaë Lemoine).