From the best-selling author of Room, a story of love pitted against evil and a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh
The Wonder
€11.00
Description
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.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.26 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 19.7 × 13.1 × 3.5 cm |
| Book_author | Donoghue, Emma |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Imprint | Picador |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 349 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Dewey | 823.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
