The Wonder (Omnibus)

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The Wonder

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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Omnibus)

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

1859: English nurse Wright arrives in Athlone in Ireland to witness a 'miracle' called Anna O'Donnell. Read by Carey Mulligan.

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.

Emma Donoghue’s magnetic novel is a 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.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes read by Carey Mulligan

Abridged by Neville Teller.  

Producer:  Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016.

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A nurse arrives in Ireland too watch over a girl apparently surviving without food

Carey Mulligan reads Emma Donoghue's tale of a nurse who arrives in Ireland too watch over a girl apparently surviving without food

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