The Wonder

<p><b>A major film from the makers of <i>Normal People </i>and <i>Room, </i>starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.<br><br>'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King<br>'Powerful, compulsively readable' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br>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 . . .<br><br>Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's <i>The Wonder &ndash;</i> inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth &ndash; is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes.</p>