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The Wonder

By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Tara Egan-Langley
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A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.

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.

©2016 Emma Donoghue (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction

Critic reviews

Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness (Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife)
Fascinating . . . Like The Turn of the Screw, the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place . . . Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itself (Sarah Lyall)
A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner . . . Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality's] power to destroy (Stephen King)
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An intruiging and extremely well
performed book - I couldn’t stop listening! Best audiobook I’ve listened to so far!

Wonderful!

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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

Through the eyes of an English nurse, the mystery of the miraculous starving girl is artfully revealed, as is the devastating power of belief.

The narrator expertly portrays a variety of accents and languages with ease, as well as an impressive emotional depth that brings this fantastical tale to life. A must-listen!

Breathtaking novel, even better narration

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