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The wonder book by emma donoghue5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Donoghue poses powerful questions about faith and belief" (Newsday)Īvailable Novemfrom Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Little, Brown & Company. Donoghue keeps us riveted" (Chicago Tribune) The novel received positive reviews upon release and was nominated for the 2016 Giller Prize. Set in post-famine Ireland, the novel follows English nurse Elizabeth Wright as she cares for a supposed miraculous girl, who has survived without sustenance for four months. "A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body. A Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist and 1 bestseller, The Wonder is the latest masterpiece from Man Booker Prizeshortlisted author Emma Donoghue. The Wonder is a 2016 novel by Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue. "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. 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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