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Book at Bedtime: The Wonder

Carey Mulligan

Emma Donoghue

Neville Teller

Gemma McMullan

Book at Bedtime: The Wonder: Episode 1

The Wonder

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, The Wonder, Episode 1

Nurse Wright arrives in Athlone, Ireland, to witness a 'miracle' called Anna O'Donnell.

1859: English nurse Mrs Wright arrives in Ireland to meet her new patient, an eleven-year-old girl who, according to her parents, has not eaten in over four months.

A new novel from the bestselling writer of 'Room', and its recent Academy Award nominated screen adaptation, Emma Donoghue. 

A small village in 1850s rural Ireland is baffled by Anna O'Donnell's fast, which began as a self-inflicted and earnest expression of faith. After weeks of subsisting only on what she calls "manna from heaven," the story of the "miracle" has reached a fever pitch. Tourists flock in droves to the O'Donnell family's modest cabin hoping to witness, and a Dublin journalist is sent to cover the sensational story. Enter Lib, an English nurse trained by Florence Nightingale who is hired to keep watch for two weeks and determine whether or not Anna is a fraud. As Anna deteriorates, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child, but for getting to the root of why the child may actually be the victim of murder in slow motion.

A magnetic novel written with all the propulsive tension that made Emma Donoghue's 'Room' a bestseller, 'The Wonder' is tale of two strangers who will transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil in its many masks.

As read by the Academy Award nominated and BAFTA winning actress Carey Mulligan (An Education; Drive; The Great Gatsby; Suffragette).

Read by Carey Mulligan
Written by Emma Donoghue
Abridged by Neville Teller
Produced by Gemma McMullan.

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Powerful psychological thriller by Emma Donoghue. Read by Carey Mulligan.

Powerful psychological thriller by Emma Donoghue about two strangers who transform each other's lives. Read by Carey Mulligan.

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