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.
| ISBN: | 9781035038824 |
| Publication date: | 2nd May 2024 |
| Author: | Emma Donoghue |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 349 pages |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Primary Genre | Historical Fiction |
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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 TimesEleven-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.
The Wonder features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Paperback, Hardback. £8.99, down from the £9.99 cover price. In Stock.
The Wonder was written by Emma Donoghue and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The Wonder has 349 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Collection series
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.
