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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.

The Wonder

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Now a major Netflix film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh.'An old-school page turner with... Read more

    Publisher: Pan Macmillan
    Publication Date: 5/2/2024
    ISBN13: 9781035038824, 978-1035038824
    ISBN10: 103503882X

    Fiction , Historical Fiction

    Description

    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.

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