![]() Lib immediately assumes the child is a trickster, but is shocked by her deep faith and her insistence that she is existing on manna from Heaven. ![]() ![]() Lib comes to realize that she and a nun have been hired to watch over an 11-year-old child, Anna O'Donnell, who stopped eating on her 11th birthday four months ago. In the 1850s, Lib Wright, an English nurse trained by Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, accepts a mysterious job in Ireland. It was also adapted into a 2022 film of the same name directed by Sebastián Lelio. The novel received positive reviews upon release and was nominated for the 2016 Giller Prize. Set in post-famine Ireland, the novel follows English nurse Elizabeth Wright as she cares for a supposed miraculous girl, who has survived without sustenance for four months. ![]() The Wonder is a 2016 novel by Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue. ![]()
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