![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By the end of the novel, not only has Lib found these qualities in herself, but she has changed her own life for the better. Although Lib believes that the scientific basis of her training will allow her to solve the mystery immediately, what she learns is that science is not a substitute for compassion and understanding. Told through Lib’s point of view, the novel chronicles Lib’s transformation from a nurse in name only to a nurse in the truest sense of the word. The Wonder OverviewSet in 1859, 12 years after the Irish Famine ends, Emma Donahue’s historical novel The Wonder (2016) depicts the increasingly complex relationship between Anna O’Donnell, an 11-year-old Roman Catholic girl in the midlands of Ireland who appears to have gone without food for four months yet remained relatively healthy, and one of the nurses who has been brought in to watch over her, Elizabeth (Lib) Wright. ![]()
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