![]() We are limited to Lib’s perspective, which was excellent in how it was both enlightened and flawed. There was a shift, but it was not what I was expecting. While it was clear that the story was quite grounded in reality, I suspected that since Lib was immediately so skeptical a shift toward elements of the unknown might be on the way. ![]() She immediately assumes the whole thing is a con of some sort, and while it would surely reduce her pay, she foresees putting an end to it rather quickly. Having trained under Nightingale, Lib approaches the issue very sensibly from the get-go too. I went in knowing very little about it, so I wasn’t sure what approach it was going to take with the “miracle” of this fasting child. I liked how much this book had me guessing when I first started reading it. Lib’s job, working in shifts with a nun, is to continuously watch the girl for two weeks to see if she is indeed a miraculous child or merely conning her community and the people at large who flock to see her. She and her family claim that through God’s will she can live without eating, and has supposedly done so for three months already. She is brought to rural Ireland at the request of a committee of locals to act as sentinel to an 11-year-old girl named Anna O’Donnell. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder is a historical novel following Lib Wright, an English nurse and trainee of the famous Florence Nightingale (the pioneer of modern nursing). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |