"In a small Irish village, tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to have eaten nothing for months. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. An educated skeptic, Lib expects to expose the fast as a hoax within days. But the long hours she spends with Anna begin to chip away at her assumptions about the child, the Irish and their faith, and herself. Is Anna a fraud or a 'living wonder'? Or is something more sinister unfolding before Lib's very eyes? Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a worldwide bestseller, The Wonder is at once a psychological thriller about love pitted against evil and the spellbinding story of two strangers--brought together by a dark secret--and the unlikely bond that transforms both of their lives"--Back cover.