The Wonder Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from BookConcierge

Digital audiobook performed by Kate Lock. In August 1859 a report of an 11-year-old girl who has lived without any food for four months is causing quite the sensation. Is she a fraud? Could she be a "living wonder"? The town physician proposes a scientific watch, employing two nurses unknown to t...

from ozzer

Emma Donoghue is best known for extracting drama from confined spaces occupied by one child and one adult. THE WONDER is just such a novel. The setting is mainly in a small dark room in a peasant farm cabin in rural Ireland just following the devastating 18th Century potato famine. The adult char...

from vancouverdeb

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue is a fascinating story about eleven year old Anna O'Donnell. In a small Irish village of the 1850's, Anna has apparently thrived without food for several months. Is Anna a miracle of the Catholic Faith? Or is someone slipping her food? Lib Wright, an English nurse who ...

from lit_chick

What collective madness had the townspeople in its grip? "If they're concerned that a child is being allowed to kill herself, quotation mark Lib demanded, quotation mark why don't they stormed the cabin?" (261) In mid-nineteenth century rural Ireland, eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell has been fasti...

from Cariola

It's the 1860s and Lib Wright, a nurse trained by Miss Nightingale herself, is about to begin a new assignment in a small Irish town.She is surprised to learn that her charge, 11-year old Anna O'Donnell, is reputed to be a miracle: she hasn't eaten for four months yet seems to be in glowing healt...