Emma Donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness

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 itself

A fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner . . . Donoghue has written, with crackling intensity, about [spirituality’s] power to destroy

A riveting allegory about the trickle-down effect of trauma

Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction

Deliciously gothic

Heartbreaking and transcendent

Fans of Emma Donoghue’s first novel Room will not be disappointed with The Wonder . . . a tale of claustrophobic suspense and the intense relationship between a woman and a child

Like [Room], The Wonder explores a dark, insular, and rigidly controlled environment . . . there is more to this mystery than superstitions and local dialect.

Donoghue proves herself endlessly inventive . . . This is the kind of book that will keep you up at night and make you smarter

Ingenious

Lib is a heroine the modern woman can admire