Wonder

Now a major Netflix film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh.

''An old-school page turner with crackling intensity'' – Stephen King
''Powerful, compulsively readable'' – The Irish Times

Eleven-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''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.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.