Presumably the reader will share Lib’s skepticism. She expects to catch the girl eating furtively before the first day ends. Unlike the Irish nun who is Anna’s other nurse, Lib isn’t religious and doesn’t believe Anna’s story. Set in mid-nineteenth century Ireland, not long after the potato famine, The Wonder is a story of two heroines: Anna O’Donnell, an eleven-year-old who claims to subsist only on “manna from heaven,” and Lib, one of two nurses hired to watch Anna for a fortnight to determine if her claims are truthful. The Wonder, Donoghue’s latest novel, is also historical and fact-based. My only prior introduction to Emma Donoghue’s work was Astray, a charming collection of historical travel stories inspired by real events. The young up-and-comer has had roles in The Doorman and ITV mini series, Viewpoint.I am not one of the millions of readers who made Room a bestseller. The film is based on the 19th century phenomenon of the 'fasting girls' and is adapted from the novel by Emma Donoghue Who is in the cast of The Wonder?įlorence Pugh plays main character and English nurse Lib, while Kíla Lord Cassidy plays the young girl, Anna. Tourists and pilgrims descend on the town to glimpse the girl who has survived for months without sustenance-but a mysterious unknown lurks, is this the work of God, or is something more ominous happening? The Wonder is a psychological thriller centred around English nurse Lib who travels to a small town to observe an 11-year-old girl, Anna O'Donnell, who has stopped eating but somehow remains alive and healthy. A year later, her parents were convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison. The girl died of starvation a week later. When people discovered her story, a team of nurses were assigned to observe what was happening. It was said she went without food for two years. One particular real life case appears to resemble that of The Wonder's narrative-a Welsh girl named Sarah Jacob. Later, an h istorian Joan Jacobs Brumberg claimed the phenomenon was a very early example of the eating disorder we now know as anorexia nervosa.
The mysterious stories have circled for years with a variety of recounts.
Sporadically, stories emerged of several adolescent girls who had the ability to go for long periods of time without eating or consuming any kind of nourishment, with some claiming to have special religious or magical powers not yet known to humans. In the book written by Emma Donoghue, she makes a note that the narrative was inspired by a real life phenomenon between the 16th and 20th century called the 'Fasting Girls'.
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