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The Wonder: Now a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh
Paperback / softback
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The Wonder: Now a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Emma Donoghue
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:368 | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 131 |
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Category/Genre | Thriller/suspense Historical fiction |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781529093001
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Classifications | Dewey:823.92 |
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Publishing Details |
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Pan Macmillan
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Imprint |
Picador
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Publication Date |
10 November 2022 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Now a major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix. 'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King 'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish Times An eleven-year-old girl 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. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
Author Biography
Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical, most recently The Pull of the Stars), as well as drama for screen and stage. Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her 2016 novel The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh, coming from Netflix. For more information, visit www.emmadonoghue.com.
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