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.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Pages: 368
Language: English
ISBN 10: 103503882X
ISBN 13: 9781035038824