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Now a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh.
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 and the twentieth century – is a psychological thriller about a child’s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes.
