All those unspoken rules that constitute a taboo, manners, or religion, and children can memorize any set of them. One of the amazing things about children is how unquestioningly they get on with whatever their peculiar circumstances are.
Here, Donoghue explains why children are stronger than they seem. A hard-nosed nurse from London is sent to find out what’s really going on. The new book spins the strange tale of an 11-year-old Catholic girl, Anna O’Donnell, living in a small Irish town in the 1850s who becomes a media sensation when she refuses to eat, claiming she’s surviving on manna from Heaven. So it’s fair to say that a great many readers are hungry for her upcoming novel, The Wonder.
The success of Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel Room - about a mother and child living in horrific captivity - turned the Irish-Canadian novelist into a star, one who’s burning even brighter following last year’s Oscar-nominated adaptation of that book.
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