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  1. Sep 20, 2016 · The setting for Emma Donoghue's novel is a small Irish village in the Irish Midlands after the end of the potato famine in Ireland in 1850s rural Ireland. The author really captures a wonderful sense of time and place. Emma Donoghue is so talented in immersing her readers. Anna O’Donnell is an 11-year-old girl living in Ireland in the 1830’s.

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  2. The Wonder is a 2016 novel by Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue . Set in post-famine Ireland, the novel follows English nurse Elizabeth Wright as she cares for a supposed miraculous girl, who has survived without sustenance for four months. The novel received positive reviews upon release and was nominated for the 2016 Giller Prize. [1]

  3. The Wonder is a narrative vortex in which the old authority of religion and the new authority of science are simultaneously shattered. … Donoghue excels at dialogue. In The Wonder passages of direct speech are connected by an economical and sly third-person narrator…. Instead of moralizing, Donoghue dramatizes the anorexic’s ability to ...

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  5. Sep 20, 2016 · Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is a writer of contemporary and historical fiction whose novels include the international bestseller "Room" (her screen adaptation was nominated for four Oscars), "Frog Music", "Slammerkin," "The Sealed Letter," "Landing," "Life Mask," "Hood," and "Stirfry." Her story collections are "Astray", "The Woman ...

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  6. The Wonder is a 2022 period psychological drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio. Emma Donoghue, Lelio, and Alice Birch wrote the screenplay based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Donoghue. Set shortly after the Great Famine, it follows an English nurse sent to a rural Irish village to observe a young ' fasting girl ', who is seemingly ...

  7. Sep 20, 2016 · A Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist and #1 bestseller, The Wonder is the latest masterpiece from Man Booker Prize–shortlisted author Emma Donoghue A village in 1850s Ireland is baffled by Anna O’Donnell’s fast.

  8. Sep 23, 2016 · The Wonder by Emma Donoghue review – a thrilling domestic psychodrama. ... To order The Wonder for £12.29 (Picador, RRP £14.99) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p ...

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