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. I came across the Fasting Girl phenomenon back in the mid-1990s. 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.Īuthor Donoghue commented on coming up with the story on her website: Tourists have flocked to the cabin of eleven-year-old and a journalist has come down to cover the sensation. The novel is set in Irish Midlands, 1859 and follows an English nurse, Lib Wright ( Florence Pugh) 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. Here’s a summary of the plot provided by Deadline: Netflix’s The Wonder is an adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel of the same name.
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