Description
| Product ID: | 9781035038824 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Title: | The Wonder |
| Authors: | Author: Emma Donoghue |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the bestselling author of Room, a gripping and deeply moving story of progress and reaction, of evil and love. <p><b>Now a major Netflix film from the makers of <i>Normal People</i> and <i>Room</i>, starring Florence Pugh.</b><br><br><b>'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' – Stephen King<br>'Powerful, compulsively readable' – <i>The 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.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-05-02 |
