Summary
An eleven-year-old girl 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, 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. Pitting all the seductions …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509818402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509818405 |
| Author: | Emma Donoghue |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Emma Donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness
Emma Donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness – Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife
Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction * Irish Times *
Vivid, tender … Her contemporary thriller Room made the author an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a welcome reminder that her historical fiction is equally fine. * Kirkus, Starred Review *
Fans of Emma Donoghue’s first novel Room will not be disappointed with The Wonder … a tale of claustrophobic suspense and the intense relationship between a woman and a child … Donoghue’s masterful way with words and imagery has the reader sharing Lib’s scepticism and disdain for Anna and her family’s naïve religious fervour. And it’s Donoghue’s skill in building The Wonder up into an increasingly tense thriller - is Anna a fake or a saint and will she live or die? - until a heart-thumping, palm-sweating dramatic denouement. * Red Magazine *
About The Author
Emma Donoghue
Born in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who spent eight years in England before moving to Canada. Her fiction includes Slammerkin, Life Mask, Touchy Subjects and the international bestseller Room (shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes).
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