Description
| Product ID: | 9781529093001 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Wonder |
| Subtitle: | Now a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh |
| Authors: | Author: Emma Donoghue |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Historical fiction, Historical fiction, Ireland, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the best-selling author of Room, a story of love pitted against evil and a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh <p><b>A major film from the makers of <i>Normal People </i>and <i>Room, </i>starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.<br><br>'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King<br>'Powerful, compulsively readable' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br>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 . . .<br><br>Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's <i>The Wonder –</i> 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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-10 |
