The Wonder
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
Modern & Contemporary Literature
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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : PAN MACMILLAN UK
- : Picador
- : 0.3
- : 01 August 2024
- : 2.2 Centimeters X 13 Centimeters X 19.7 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Emma Donoghue
- : Emma Donoghue
- : 823.92
- : 823.92
- : English
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Paperback