![]() Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels - a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.(Publisher). Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghues The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of fasting girls between the. ![]() Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. In this masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle - a girl said to have survived without food for month - and soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Soon to be a Netflix film starring Florence Pugh. Bound in orange paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in orange. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. ![]() First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016. ![]()
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