Overview
From the bestselling author of Room, a story of love pitted against evil and a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh.
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 – inspired by numerous European and North American cases of ''fasting girls'' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth – is a psychological thriller about a child''s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes.
- | Author: Emma Donoghue
- | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Nov 10, 2022
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781529093001
- | ISBN-10: 1529093007
