The Wonder

A major film from the makers ofand Normal Peopleand andand Room,and starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.’An old-school page turner with crackling intensity’ Stephen King’Powerful, compulsively readable’and Irish TimesEleven-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 . . .Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue’sand The Wonder -and inspired by numerous European and North American cases of ‘fasting girls’ between the sixteenth century and the twentieth – is a psychological thriller about a child’s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes.