Her first, 2015’s Room, was adapted from the author’s 2010 novel and went on to win a Best Actress Oscar for Brie Larson, and Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, and Best Screenplay for Donoghue. The Wonder marks Donoghue’s second novel-to-film adaptation.
The child has been heralded as a miracle and has become a tourist attraction, but as Lib observes her young charge, she discovers something more sinister afoot. The Wonder centers on skeptical English nurse Lib Wright, played by Florence Pugh ( Little Women, Midsommar), who is summoned to Ireland to observe 11-year-old Anna O’Donnell, a deeply religious fasting girl. Emma Donoghue’s best-selling novel - and soon-to-be film - The Wonder draws upon this very real and very disturbing phenomenon.
These pre-adolescent girls, who claimed they didn’t need food to survive, were often regarded as religious miracles or possessing magical powers. In the Victorian Era, reports of “fasting girls” spread across Europe and became a fascination across the continent.
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