Needless to say, when I heard she had a new book coming out this fall, The Wonder, I immediately rushed over to Netgalley to request a review copy.

Even though it has been nearly six months since I read and reviewed Room, Donoghue’s writing is so powerful that I still think about that story all the time and it’s probably one of the books that I most often suggest to anyone who asks me to recommend a good book. I first fell in love with Donoghue’s writing style and storytelling abilities when I read her immensely popular novel, Room.

She is such a master of weaving together compelling stories that ask tough questions and that you won’t be able to stop thinking about for days, even weeks, after you’ve finished reading them. Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, THE WONDER works beautifully on many levels–a tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.Įmma Donoghue is fast becoming one of my all-time favorite authors. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Goodreads Synopsis : In Emma Donoghue’s latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child’s life. 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.FTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley. 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. 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. 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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