Synopsis
A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.
'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' Stephen King
'Powerful, compulsively readable' Irish Times
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 . . .
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Details
10 November 2022368 pages
9781529093001Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tendernessAudrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
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 itselfSarah Lyall, New York Times
A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner . . . Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality's] power to destroyStephen King, New York Times Book Review
A riveting allegory about the trickle-down effect of traumaVogue
