The Wonder

Now 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

 

An eleven-year-old girl 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.

 

2016 Nominee - Bord Gáis Energy Eason Novel of the Year

2017 Nominee - Kerry Group Irish Novel Award

2018 Nominee - International Dublin Literary Award