A chilling novel from the bestselling author of Room.
Born in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who spent eight years in England before moving to Canada. Her fiction includes Slammerkin, Life Mask, Touchy Subjects and the international bestseller Room (shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes).
Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into
horror and horror into tenderness
*Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife*
Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably
bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of
fiction
*Irish Times*
Vivid, tender . . . Her contemporary thriller Room made the author
an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a
welcome reminder that her historical fiction is equally fine.
*Kirkus, Starred Review*
Fans of Emma Donoghue's first novel Room will not be disappointed
with The Wonder . . . a tale of claustrophobic suspense and the
intense relationship between a woman and a child . . . Donoghue's
masterful way with words and imagery has the reader sharing Lib's
scepticism and disdain for Anna and her family's naïve religious
fervour. 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.
*Red Magazine*
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