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Nurse Wright begins her watch over Anna by examining the child and her bedroom.

Under instruction from the village’s committee, Nurse Wright begins her supervision of Anna O’Donnell, eager to discover how the girl has been secretly feeding herself.

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).
Reader ..... Carey Mulligan
Author ..... Emma Donoghue
Abridger ..... Neville Teller
Producer ..... Gemma McMullan


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Carey Mulligan reads The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

Carey Mulligan reads Emma Donoghue’s magnetic novel, the tale of two strangers who will transform each other's lives. Abridged by Neville Teller.

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