![]() ![]() On the other side of the bench, slouching so his back almost touched hers, the driver flicked his whip. This was better than the stuffy train, at least. She put up her steel-frame umbrella against the drizzle. Lib settled herself on the single bench down the middle, her boots hanging closer to the right-hand wheel than she liked. An Irish misnomer nothing jaunty about this bare cart. He carried her trunk to what he called the jaunting car. ![]() But that was some years ago, so her ear strained now to make out the driver’s words. A train from London to Liverpool the steam packet overnight to Dublin a slow Sunday train west to a town called Athlone. The journey was no worse than she expected. The Wonder By Emma Donoghue: Book Extract Chapter: English nurse Lib Wright is summoned.įresh from the bloody battlefields of the Crimean War and the tutelage of Florence Nightingale, Lib is an atheist trained in hard medical facts – and doesn’t believe in miracles.ĭonoghue writes a cracking good yarn and, even if you’re a big fan of Room, like I am, and don't think she'll be able to match it, you won't be disappointed. The local priest and her family – farmworkers and devout Catholics – desperately want Anna declared a saint. Set in Victorian Ireland, news is spreading of a “manna from heaven” – a pious 11-year-old girl called Anna O’Donnell, who has been starving herself for four months, yet appears to be healthy. This is Emma Donoghue’s next book after her hit novel, Room. ![]()
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