* Kirkus, Starred Review * Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction * Irish Times * Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness - Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife The Irish potato famine has been over for seven years when The Wonder commences but the aftereffects are everywhere.
Her contemporary thriller Room made the author an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a welcome reminder that her historical fiction is equally fine. Donoghue's masterful way with words and imagery has the reader sharing Lib's scepticism and disdain for Anna and her family's naive religious fervour. a tale of claustrophobic suspense and the intense relationship between a woman and a child. Anna may or may not be a "living marvel," but The Wonder certainly is * NPR * Fans of Emma Donoghue's first novel Room will not be disappointed with The Wonder.
Donoghue engages mysteries of faith and doubt without sacrificing the lyricism of her language or the suspense of her storyline.
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