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 eleven-year-old girl 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 . . .</b><br><br>Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's <i>The Wonder </i>– inspired by numerous cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth – is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.</p>