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The Wonder

by Emma Donoghue

  

€ 12.50 

ISBN: 9781035038824

Now a major Netflix film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh

'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' - Stephen King
'Powerful, compulsively readable' - The 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.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

368 pages.

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Date of Publication: 02/05/2024

Cover of The Wonder - Emma Donoghue - 9781035038824Paperback

The Wonder also appears in these Categories:

Irish Fiction

Fiction