The Wonder

Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tendernessAudrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife

Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fictionIrish Times

Vivid, tender . . . Her contemporary thriller Room made the author an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a welcome reminder that her historical fiction is equally fine.Kirkus, Starred Review

Fans of Emma Donoghue's first novel Room will not be disappointed with The Wonder . . . a tale of claustrophobic suspense and the intense relationship between a woman and a child . . . Donoghue's masterful way with words and imagery has the reader sharing Lib's scepticism and disdain for Anna and her family's naïve religious fervour. 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.Red Magazine