The Wonder
by:
Emma Donoghue (author)
In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell,...
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In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.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
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780316393874 (0316393878)
ASIN: 316393878
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Emma Donoghue has the unique ability to place the reader in a precarious, uncomfortable and psychologically fraught situation — it is utterly compelling, and almost equally frustrating. In this story set in the Irish Midlands, Donoghue's characters are perfectly balanced; so that while there are cer...
I think I picked this novel up because I wanted to see why it was so popular. I was anticipating an exciting novel and as I read, I really didn’t understand the hype. A child, an eleven- year old girl was entertaining the world with the notion that she was surviving on a mere few drops of water each...
4.5 starsWow, this book! I really didn't know what the outcome was going to be. I was so wrapped up in the girl's reasoning and actions. I thought any moment something would happen to change the direction of the story. It's historical, and most of it is just a nurse and a little girl talking or ...
A special thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.It is no wonder (see what I did there?) that Donoghue is a celebrated author, she is an incredibly gifted storyteller. With the rise and fall of her prose, we are transported to a sleepy Irish ...
This new novel by the author of “Room” is an entirely different take on what it means to be trapped and to be rescued. It is set in rural post-famine Ireland in the late 1850s. An English nurse trained under Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War is dispatched to a small town, where an eleven...
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