Wherever you live, PLEASE support your local indie bookstore by buying from them either directly or through an indie-friendly hub such as bookshop.org or hive.co.uk. …In The Wonder, Gospel-like in its concern with adversity and hope, miracles are possible–perhaps through God, perhaps through woman.’ – Time, ‘Donoghue’s main purpose here is story, story, story, and God bless her for it… The Wonder is a fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner (I use the phrase without shame.) Candles, the girl’s own clothes, pages out of her books, fragments of her own skin—she had no chance to nibble on any of these things unobserved. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award. Lib watched her lips shaping the words over and over: . I have no other skills. This is it, so it better work! She let herself in and waited on one of the three-legged stools the Irish called creepies. Lib watched her lips shaping the words over and over: Now and at the hour of our death, amen. Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep.’ – USA Today, ‘A fine work, adept and compelling in voice, plot, and moral complexity.’ – Boston Globe, ‘The Wonder unfolds a cagey, suspenseful stand-off… Anna receives the author’s full sympathies and is a lively, endearing foil to her incredulous nurse.’ - Wall Street Journal, ‘In her deceptively straight-forward prose, Donoghue masterfully unravels a tense gothic page-turner in which nobody, including the unreliable nurse narrator, are entirely what they seem. “Sister, you’ll stay for a cup of tea with us?” asked Rosaleen. It was maddening; what could they be missing? Finally it occurred to me that if I was still so fascinated by the Fasting Girls, two decades on, I should drop my usual method of writing a historical novel based on a real case, and let myself invent a story. Room. When she reached the cabin at nine that night she recognized the moaning chorus of the Rosary: Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death, amen. Emma Donoghue, author of the novel 'Room,' reveals how and why she decided to tell this heartbreaking story of captivity. … Donoghue manages to engage these larger mysteries of faith, doubt and evil without sacrificing the lyricism of her language or the suspense of her story line. The tradition dates back to at least medieval times when it was common for devoutly religious women to abstain from food, among other essentials. Inspired by various true accounts of "fasting girls" and set in the mid 19th century, The Wonder is the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O'Donnell, whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday... four months ago. ‘In Donoghue’s case the point of combining fact and invention is profoundly subversive. … deliciously gothic — … full of claustrophobic intensity and suspense. Donoghue’s grave consideration of the damage religion can do when it crosses the line into superstition lifts that narrative rather than weighing it down.’ – Stephen King, New York Times Book Review ‘ “The Wonder” is a marvel, a rarity in contemporary fiction, an alchemist’s miracle in which page-turner, love story, historical romance, mystery and serious social criticism all blend together to form something more fascinating and beautiful than the sum of what could have been the bland various parts.… “The Wonder,” her ninth novel, makes the reader’s heart pound without a gunshot or a gang war. A nurse, sent to investigate whether the child is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. … . Besides, Anna was never alone anymore, not since the watch had begun. THE WONDER was written by Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM. By Alexandra Schwart z The Wonder Summary & Study Guide. The novel has the kind of haunting quality that keeps drawing you back from the call of the world.’ - New York Times, ‘Heartbreaking and heartwarming.’- The Virginian-Pilot, ‘Donoghue excels at the microcosm, and her obsessive interest in rooting out the truth makes for a compulsive read. But no, that would stain her mouth, surely. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. The Pull of the Stars . While the nun was doing up her cloak in the bedroom, Lib asked her about the day. The following is from Emma Donoghue’s novel, The Wonder.Donoghue is a writer of contemporary and historical fiction whose novels include the bestselling The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask, Hood, Stirfry, Room and Frog Music. As with the best historical fiction – it is not about the past, but about the present.’ – Financial Times, ‘Eerie… The reader is seduced by the suspense; compelled to pay as close consideration as the nurse in order to understand precisely what’s going on … sets a superb pace’ – Irish Times, ‘If the O’Donnells could serve as a metaphor for the whole, broken country, then Anna, too, serves as a metaphor for Ireland – starving yet surviving; clinging to her religion; hiding secrets from sight. It seemed to say a lot about what it’s meant to be a girl - in many Western countries, from the sixteenth century right through to the twentieth - that these girls became celebrities by not eating. The novel has the kind of haunting quality that keeps drawing you back from the call of the world.’ - New York Times ‘Heartbreaking and heartwarming.’- The Virginian-Pilot ‘Donoghue excels at the microcosm, and her obsessive interest in rooting out the truth makes for a compulsive read. . Emma Donoghue. Privacy Policy. “Good night, pet,” Kitty told her with a wide yawn, and she trudged back to the kitchen. THE WONDER was written by Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM. … Donoghue is a superb stylist — her prose is stirring and tender, her period setting alive.’ – Sunday Times ‘Both an excoriating meditation on the malignant nature of fundamentalism … and a whodunit…. What they couldn’t find—or couldn’t persuade the purveyor to release—they had to improvise. Related Topics. Copy link. But I never found one real case that rang that little bell in me, telling me this was the story I had to tell in a novel. Lungs: 14 respirations per minute. Like babies, the Catholics, babbling as they squeezed their beads. … Both novels [Room and The Wonder] are extreme thought experiments, probing the pared-down resources of human character.’ - New York Review of Books, ‘These rooms of Donoghue’s may be tiny and sealed off, yet they teem with life-and-death drama and great moral questions. Tongue: no change. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder – 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. Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). No symptoms any better or worse. Was she refusing to speak to the Englishwoman now, after this morning’s spat about the visitors? Related Topics. Emma Donoghue. Of course they’d like Sister Michael, familiar and inoffensive. Sister Michael’s head was up, at least, eyes on the little girl, but was she concentrating on her or on the prayers? Lib opened to a new page and took up her metallic pencil. “After six hours you snuff it and trim off the charred bit and top it up and light the yoke again. “Good night, Mammy.”, After a few minutes, the slavey came in with an unshaded lamp, and set it down. Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Tuesday, August 9, 9:27 p.m. Pulse: 93 beats per minute. The Wonder is a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. In Review: The Wonder by Emma Donoghue. She trained her gaze in turn on the mother, the father, the poor cousin, wondering which of them was plotting to evade her scrutiny tonight. We must be scavengers in a time of calamity; that line of Miss N.’s came back to Lib now. Emma Donoghue’s Art of Starvation In the new historical novel “The Wonder,” the author of “Room” examines the connection between fasting and faith. She made a last pass over the sheets with the flat of her hand. Students will … “The Book of Exodus, I, As Sister Michael left the room, Rosaleen O’Donnell came in. That in these dim huts nothing had changed since the age of the Druids and nothing ever would. Donoghue’s ninth novel – her first historical one set in her homeland of Ireland - was a bestseller in Canada even before publication, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize there, as well as for Ireland's Kerry Group Novel of the Year and a Shirley Jackson Award for the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic as well as a Medici Award for book-club favourites. Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep.’ – USA Today ‘A fine work, adept and compelling in voice, plot, and moral complexity.’ – Boston Globe ‘The Wonder unfolds a cagey, suspenseful stand-off… Anna receives the author’s full sympathies and is a lively, endearing foil to her incredulous nurse.’ - Wall Street Journal ‘In her deceptively straight-forward prose, Donoghue masterfully unravels a tense gothic page-turner in which nobody, including the unreliable nurse narrator, are entirely what they seem. Intermittent fasting is a common custom in many religions and viewed as a sign of pious constraint. “I won’t, Mrs. O’Donnell, but thank you kindly.”. I was instantly intrigued by these cases, which seemed to echo medieval saints starving as an act of penance, and also modern anorexics, but weren't exactly the same as either. What was that line in the hymn they’d sung at Lib’s school? “I thought you might know the scriptural reference.”, Sister Michael furrowed her forehead. The first three parts of the story take place in Room. I spoke to Donoghue about the second of these novels, her 2016 book, The Wonder. “What kind of service?”, Anna broke in: “To the sick, the poor, and the ignorant.”, “Well remembered, child,” said the nun. THE WONDER was written by Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM. She trained her gaze in turn on the mother, the father, the poor cousin, wondering which of them was plotting to evade her scrutiny tonight. Info. Akin. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. … its near-claustrophobic economy makes it hard to put down.’ – Chicago Tribune, ‘A rich Irish bog of religion and duty and morality and truth. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is a masterfully written mystery, and the detective is a young English nurse who has been hired to come in as an outside observer to determine the validity of the claim of a rural Irish family that their eleven year old daughter has taken no food for four months, and yet, is miraculously thriving. What was it that the poet William Blake said about seeing “a World in a Grain of Sand . This Study Guide consists of approximately 61 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Wonder. …its dramas and details are sharply unique. and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. . Lib had a dizzying sense that time could fall into itself like the embers. How could such a surface ever be clean? A thoroughly enjoyable read from one of the country’s premier storytellers.’ – Toronto Star ‘As gripping and intense as the popular Room … The prose is so intensely alive, so cinematic that you can truly see the action unfolding before your eyes … an engrossing psychological thriller [and] near-perfect novel.’ – Ottawa Citizen ‘Donoghue draws out the narrative suspense with her customary combination of historical verve and emotional delicacy… Like Room, this is a thrilling domestic psychodrama that draws its power from quotidian detail as well as gothic horror’ - The Guardian ‘The Wonder explores 19th-century rural Ireland with great passion: the profound faith, prayer, superstition, ritual, corruption and collective madness of it all. In The Wonder passages of direct speech are connected by an economical and sly third-person narrator…. And watch out for draughts, the fellow said, or they can shoot soot through the room like a black rain!”. “And if you’d seen the girl engage in any surreptitious behaviour,” asked Lib in a whisper, “I hope you’d consider this a relevant. Your new book, The Wonder, is about a girl in 19th-century Ireland who’s lived without food for months-or Lib had a dizzying sense that time could fall into itself like the embers. Lin Elinor Pettersson, "Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder,” in Nordic Irish Studies Journal 16 (2017), 1-20. March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021 Jessica Veysey. “Good night, Mrs. O’Donnell,” Lib put in, conspicuously civil. Order our The Wonder Study Guide. … With Donoghue’s readable prose and lightness of touch, we find ourselves both pausing for thought and racing forward to see what will become of Anna.’ - Irish Independent, Extras Carey Mulligan read The Wonder for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047cd0w, Emma Donoghue interviewed by Alan Neal for CBC’s All in a Day, 28 Sept 2016, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/programs/allinaday/emma-donoghue-s-book-the-wonder-nominated-for-a-giller-1.3782831, Emma Donoghue interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR, http://www.npr.org/2016/09/17/494360267/emma-donoghues-new-novel-the-wonder, Eliza Haughton-Shaw, 'Interview: Emma Donoghue on writing hunger', https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/interview-emma-donoghue-on-writing-hunger/, Andrea O'Reilly, 'Redemptive Mothering: Reclamation, Absolution and Deliverance in Emma Donoghue's Room and The Wonder,' in Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Transformation, ed. Inspired by various true accounts of "fasting girls" and set in the mid 19th century, The Wonder is the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O'Donnell, whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday... four months ago. Merely acknowledging what Lib had said, or affirming that such a thing was quite possible? “Here’s the can, and the lamp scissors,” said Kitty. The night is dark, and I am far from home. vrbo.com. Tap to unmute. The main character in Emma Donoghue's new novel "The Wonder" is a little Irish girl who refuses to eat. An English nurse, Lib Wright, is summoned to a tiny village to observe what some are claiming as a medical anomaly or a miracle - a girl said to have survived without food for months. Her first night shift. Rosaleen O’Donnell was using a little rake to tidy the embers into a circle. . Some were too tragic, even for a writer with my dark tastes; Sarah Jacob, for instance, a little girl who died while being ‘watched' by nurses in 1869. THE WONDER was written by Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM. . And watch out for draughts, the fellow said, or they can shoot soot through the room like a black rain!”, “Good night, pet,” Kitty told her with a wide yawn, and she. A personal note: I came across the Fasting Girl phenomenon back in the mid-1990s - so long ago that I can’t even remember where I first read about these girls and young women (and very occasionally older women or men). ?” Something of that kind of mystic expansion happens in Donoghue’s rooms. An 11-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. Merely acknowledging what. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is a masterfully written mystery, and the detective is a young English nurse who has been hired to come in as an outside observer to determine the validity of the claim of a rural Irish family that their eleven year old daughter has taken no food for four months, and yet, is miraculously thriving. Lib listened to the whispered endearments and watched Anna’s thick hands, dangling at her sides, empty. It is lined with cork and lead, has a chain link fence in the floor beneath it, and has only one window, a Skylight on the ceiling. “Not whale oil?”. Lib had said, or affirming that such a thing was quite possible? BettyAnn Martin and Michelann Parr (Bradford, ON: Demeter, 2020), pp.141-66, Molly Ferguson, “To Say No and No and No Again”: Fasting Girls, Shame, and Storytelling in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder,’ New Hibernia Review 22:2 (Summer 2018), 93-108, Libe García Zarranz, ‘Carving, Cutting, Fasting: Cassils and Emma Donoghue’s Bodily Wonders’, paper delivered at Canada 150 conference, University College Dublin, 2017. Instead of moralizing, Donoghue dramatizes the anorexic’s ability to impose an obsession with food on others. “After six hours you snuff it and trim off the charred bit and top it up and light the yoke again. The Wonder brings together the best of all, combining a gracefully tense, young voice with a richly detailed historical setting.” - The Millions “Readers of historical fiction will gravitate to this tale.” - … 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. Meet Emma Donoghue on her book tour, starting in London on September 15, and ending in Seattle on October 22. A thoroughly enjoyable read from one of the country’s premier storytellers.’ – Toronto Star, ‘As gripping and intense as the popular Room … The prose is so intensely alive, so cinematic that you can truly see the action unfolding before your eyes … an engrossing psychological thriller [and] near-perfect novel.’ – Ottawa Citizen, ‘Donoghue draws out the narrative suspense with her customary combination of historical verve and emotional delicacy… Like Room, this is a thrilling domestic psychodrama that draws its power from quotidian detail as well as gothic horror’ - The Guardian, ‘The Wonder explores 19th-century rural Ireland with great passion: the profound faith, prayer, superstition, ritual, corruption and collective madness of it all. Clearly the Irish Midlands were a depression where wet pooled, the little circle in a saucer"(Quote from The Wonder) The setting for Emma Donoghue's novel is the Irish Midlands about seven years after the end of the potatoe famine in Ireland. Tourists have flocked to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, and a journalist has come down to cover the sensation. Sister Michael furrowed her forehead. What they couldn’t find—or couldn’t persuade the purveyor to release—they had to improvise. The child was on her knees by the bed, pressing her hands flat together in prayer. … deliciously gothic — … full of claustrophobic intensity and suspense. Room. This mysterious burning fluid smelled something like turpentine; alcohol in the mix, perhaps. “We vow to be of use.”. She struck a match and lit the wick till it flared, then crossed herself. “Donoghue is known for her bestselling novel, Room. Inspired by various true accounts of "fasting girls" and set in the mid 19th century, The Wonder is the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O'Donnell, whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday... four months ago. Order our The Wonder Study Guide. © 2017 EmmaDonoghue.com. Emma Donoghue: It wouldn’t really occur to me to spend my time on earth on anything but words. ?” Something of that kind of mystic expansion happens in Donoghue’s rooms. We must be scavengers in a time of calamity; that line of Miss N.’s came back to Lib now. …In The Wonder, Gospel-like in its concern with adversity and hope, miracles are possible–perhaps through God, perhaps through woman.’ – Time ‘Donoghue’s main purpose here is story, story, story, and God bless her for it… The Wonder is a fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner (I use the phrase without shame.) A war is being waged in Anna’s tiny bedroom, and its combatants stand for sides not narrowly confined to the Victorian era: science versus faith, progress versus tradition, rich versus poor.’ – San Francisco Chronicle ‘A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body. Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company. . Searching for hidden crumbs had already become routine. To buy The Wonder: In the US: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/search/?q=donoghue+wonder In Canada: http://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443450027/the-wonder In the UK/Ireland/Australia/’Commonwealth’: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/emma-donoghue/the-wonder, on audio: https://thereadinghouse.co.uk/products/thewonder-by-emmadonoghue?_pos=8&_sid=7edcf9ef4&_ss=r. As Sister Michael left the room, Rosaleen O’Donnell came in but didn’t say a word. On the Giller Prize 2016 shortlist, this latest book by Irish/Canadian author Emma Donoghue (author of Room), features Elizabeth (Lib) Wright, a dedicated and talented former “Florence Nightingale nurse.” Being summoned from England for a special job, Lib finds herself in the midst of a difficult case in rural Ireland, post potato famine. In this masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle — a girl said to have survived without food for month — and soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Some were low comedy, such as the case of Ann Moore, exposed as a cheat in 1813. Copyright © 2016 by Emma Donoghue. The Wonder was inspired by several real-life instances of girls who claimed to be beyond the earthly requirement of eating. THE WONDER was written by Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM. Shopping. Inspired by various true accounts of "fasting girls" and set in the mid 19th century, The Wonder is the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O'Donnell, whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday... four months ago. Inspired by various true accounts of "fasting girls" and set in the mid 19th century, The Wonder is the tale of a young Irish girl, Anna O'Donnell, whose Catholic family claim she has eaten nothing since her eleventh birthday... four months ago. Emma Donoghue interviewed by Alan Neal for CBC’s All in a Day, 28 Sept 2016. We take the usual vows of any order — poverty, chastity, obedience — but also a fourth, service.”, Lib had never heard the nun say so much before. Emma Donoghue interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR. Torn-up sheets became slings, sacks were stuffed to make tiny mattresses; desperation was the mother of the makeshift. Settings Themes and Motifs Styles Quotes. The Wonder Themes & Motifs. Donoghue is now adapting The Wonder into a feature film with Element Pictures (with whom she made Room) and House Productions. Ruth Scurr, 'The Dreams and the Demons of Fasting,' The New York Review of Books, March 23 2017, Stephen King, ‘Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel,’ New York Times Book Review, Sept 27, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/books/review/stephen-king-emma-donoghue-the-wonder.html?_r=0 Sarah Lyall, ‘In ‘The Wonder,’ the Morality of Letting a Child Fast,’ New York Times, Sept 18, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/books/emma-donoghue-the-wonder.html Alexandra Schwartz, ’Emma Donoghue’s Art of Starvation,’ The New Yorker, Sept 19 2016, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/emma-donoghues-art-of-starvation Maureen Corrigan, ‘The Wonder’: From the author of ‘Room,’ another tight, intense drama,’ Washington Post, 23 September 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-wonder-from-the-author-of-room-another-a-tight-intense-drama/2016/09/22/cc9980e0-80d4-11e6-b002-307601806392_story.html. As with the best historical fiction – it is not about the past, but about the present.’ – Financial Times ‘Eerie… The reader is seduced by the suspense; compelled to pay as close consideration as the nurse in order to understand precisely what’s going on … sets a superb pace’ – Irish Times ‘If the O’Donnells could serve as a metaphor for the whole, broken country, then Anna, too, serves as a metaphor for Ireland – starving yet surviving; clinging to her religion; hiding secrets from sight. 4.5 Stars. Anna was in her nightdress already. She turned her back on Lib, bending to wrap the tiny girl in her arms. Donoghue’s grave consideration of the damage religion can do when it crosses the line into superstition lifts that narrative rather than weighing it down.’ – Stephen King, New York Times Book Review, ‘ “The Wonder” is a marvel, a rarity in contemporary fiction, an alchemist’s miracle in which page-turner, love story, historical romance, mystery and serious social criticism all blend together to form something more fascinating and beautiful than the sum of what could have been the bland various parts.…, “The Wonder,” her ninth novel, makes the reader’s heart pound without a gunshot or a gang war. [But] she is also well versed in historical fiction. This Study Guide consists of approximately 61 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Wonder …
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