Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itself."- Sarah Lyall, New York Times Like The Turn of the Screw, the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place. "Donoghue poses powerful questions about faith and belief" ( Newsday) Donoghue keeps us riveted" ( Chicago Tribune) "A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body. "Heartbreaking and transcendent"( New York Times)
Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep" ( USA Today, 3/4 stars) 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. 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. Description Now a Netflix film starring Florence Pugh: In this "old-school page turner" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review) by the 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 months-and soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
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