Read by: Tara Egan-Langley
Language: English
Length: 9 hours and 48 minutes
Publisher: Picador
Release date: 2022-11-10
A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.
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 . . .
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.