![]() ![]() ![]() Lib, with her scientific outlook, naturally suspects foul play. Many visitors have already come from both Ireland and abroad to view the child, and to perhaps receive some divine benefit from being in her midst. Her survival without food is being hailed as a miracle and the village council has recruited a team of two (Lib, the English nurse, and an Irish nun) to watch her in shifts to ensure the child is genuinely not receiving sustenance. She is sent to Ireland on a commission to observe an eleven year-old girl, Anna O’Donnell, who, it is alleged, has not eaten for four months. ![]() Elizabeth ‘Lib’ Wright is a nurse who trained with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Set in rural Ireland in 1859, in the shadows of the Irish Famine and the Crimean War, the main protagonists have had disturbing brushes with death and suffering which impact the way they behave and how they interact with one another. Shortly after, I picked up The Wonder and it’s been sitting in my TBR pile ever since! I resolved to read it while I was away over Easter and, my goodness, it did not disappoint. ![]() Emma Donoghue’s Room was I think my favourite of that batch (both the film and the book) and was one of my best reads of that year. One of my earliest posts on this blog was a comparison of a handful of books with their film adaptations it was 2016, a bumper year for great books in the Oscars with The Danish Girl, The Revenant, Room and Carol all nominated. ![]()
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