The Wonder
Author: Emma Donoghue
ISBN: 9781529093001
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 37mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Now a major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on streaming. 'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King 'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish Times 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, 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. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
ISBN: 9781529093001
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 37mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Now a major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on streaming. 'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King 'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish Times 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, 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. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
