Synopsis
Now a major Netflix film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh.
'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' – Stephen King
'Powerful, compulsively readable' – The Irish Times
Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . ....
Details
02 May 2024368 pages
9781035038824Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tendernessAudrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
Fascinating . . . Like The Turn of the Screw, the novel opens irresistibly, when a young woman with a troubled past gets an enigmatic posting in a remote place . . . Heartbreaking and transcendent and almost religious in itselfSarah Lyall, New York Times
A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner . . . Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality's] power to destroyStephen King, New York Times Book Review
A riveting allegory about the trickle-down effect of traumaVogue
