Wonder, The

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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 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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781035038824
Published: May 2024

Number of pages: 368
Width: 130 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Pan Macmillan