THE WONDER

A small Irish village is mystified by what appears to be a miracle but may actually be murder in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.

Like ROOM, it also has themes of containment and escape and the child at the heart of this novel is an 11 year-old girl named named Anna O'Donnell. The Wonder tells the riveting story of young Anna, who has stopped eating but mysteriously remains alive and the English nurse, Lib, charged with determining whether the girl is a fraud.

The village is baffled by Anna O'Donnell's fast, which began in self-afflicted earnest and shows no signs of ceasing. Each time the girl is asked about her fast, she explains she subsists off manna from heaven. Tourists flock in droves to the O'Donnell's modest cabin, where Anna resides, hoping to witness a true miracle. As Anna begins to deteriorate, Lib, her nurse, finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child who appears to subsist on air and faith alone, but for that child's very survival.

A brilliant examination of doubt, faith, and what nourishes us body and soul, The Wonder is also a powerful psychological thriller--a story of love pitted against evil in its many masks, and of a child's murder threatening to occur in slow motion before our eyes.