In this masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to. And it's Donoghue's skill in building The Wonder up into an increasingly tense thriller - is Anna a fake or a saint and will she live or die? - until a heart-thumping, palm-sweating dramatic denouement. By the New York Times bestselling author of Room A small Irish village is mystified by what appears to be a miracle but may actually be murder in this 'fine, fact-based, old-school page-turner' (Stephen King). This text refers to an alternate kindleedition edition. Donoghue's masterful way with words and imagery has the reader sharing Lib's scepticism and disdain for Anna and her family's naive religious fervour. The Wonder works beautifully on many levelsas a simple tale of two strangers who will transform each other’s lives, as a powerful psychological thriller, and as a story of love pitted against evil in its many masks. a tale of claustrophobic suspense and the intense relationship between a woman and a child. * Kirkus, Starred Review *įans of Emma Donoghue's first novel Room will not be disappointed with The Wonder. The man who makes the remark, on the first page of Emma Donoghue’s engrossing. Her contemporary thriller Ro om made the author an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a welcome reminder that her historical fiction is equally fine. Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness - Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wifeĭonoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction * Irish Times *
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