Lib, an English, Nightingale-trained nurse, is sent to monitor the health of a young girl who claims not to have eaten in four months. Her idiom, so American in Room is here - apart from one glaring slip - so delightfully, naturally, British you would believe her to be a native British English speaker.
Making such a leap in subject-matter, setting and time frame is no easy manoeuvre but Donoghue manages it without a slip. Religion blinds -or balms - the people it depends upon your point of view. Living is hard there, communities small and insular, people uneducated and superstitious. But this book is set thousands of miles and a century away from Room, in mid-19th century rural Ireland. Donoghue wrings every last scent and texture from everything so that reading her books is like living in them. The Wonder has the same distilled quality details are boiled down to their essentials. Room is such a modern book, a book of and for our time, dealing with a contemporary issue which is hard to look at without squinting. "A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body.I loved Donoghue’s first book Room and so came to this one with eager expectations. "Heartbreaking and transcendent"( New York Times) Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep" ( USA Today, 3/4 stars)
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. 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. W a Netflix film starring Florence Pugh: In this "old-school page turner" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review) by the bestselling author of Room, an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-and soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
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