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The Wonder

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22 September 2016
256 pages
9781509818419
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness
Fascinating . . . Like The Turn of the Screw, the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place . . . Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itself
A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner . . . Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality's] power to destroy
A riveting allegory about the trickle-down effect of trauma