The Wonder

Now 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'' - 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.

About the author

Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical including The Pull of the Stars), as well as drama for screen and stage. Room, was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her novel The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh and distributed by Netflix.

Summary

From the bestselling author of Room, a gripping and deeply moving story of progress and reaction, of evil and love.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Donoghue, Donoghue Emma
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781035038824
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503882-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, c 1800 to c 1900, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Interior life, Ireland, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, c 1850 to c 1859