The Wonder

Emma Donoghue Author Emma Donoghue is now a household name thanks to her bestselling novel Room, which was made into an Oscar-winning film last year. Her latest effort, The Wonder, is a similarly suspenseful and tightlywrought thriller, where the majority of the action takes place in a small claustrophobic room. But this novel is set in a dark and peaty village in Victorian Ireland, where an 11-year-old girl in perfect health is believed to have lived for the past four months on nothing but air.

The Wonder is a clever novel, balancing vivid period detail with a tightly-wound narrative. Chillingly gothic and filled with narrative surprises, this book reels you in, fills you with questions and agonisingly sustains the suspense until the big reveal. 9/10