"I don't want you to think that I'm so good as you put it. I have a little evil side, too. I just keep it well hidden."
Published in 2016, The Wonder by Emma Donoghue follows an English nurse who is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle - a girl said to have survived without food for months - who soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.
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