The Wonder

<p><b>Now a major Netflix film from the makers of <i>Normal People</i> and <i>Room</i>, starring Florence Pugh.</b><br><br><b>'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' &ndash; Stephen King<br>'Powerful, compulsively readable' &ndash; <i>The 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</i> &ndash; 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.<br><br><b>Part of the Pi