Synopsis
A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.
'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' – Stephen King
'Powerful, compulsively readable' – Irish Times
Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . .
Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder is inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth. A psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes.
'Fans of Emma Donoghue's first novel Room will not be disappointed with The Wonder' – Red Magazine
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Reviews
“Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness”Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
“Fascinating . . . Like The Turn of the Screw, the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place . . . Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itself”Sarah Lyall, New York Times
“A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner . . . Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality's] power to destroy”Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
“Donoghue proves herself endlessly inventive . . . This is the kind of book that will keep you up at night and make you smarter”Julie Buntin, Cosmopolitan
