The Wonder: Now a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh - Emma Donoghue (Paperback) 10-11-2022 Short-listed for Bord Gais Energy Eason Novel of the Year 2016 (UK) and Kerry Group Irish Novel Award 2017 (UK). Long-listed for International Dublin L

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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. Show more