The Wonder
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| Originally published | September 20, 2016 |
| Authors | Emma Donoghue |
| Genres | Novel |
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| Psychological Fiction | |
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| ID | 2326053 |
About The Wonder
An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . . Set in the Irish Midlands . . .
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... He reportedly inspired Roald Dahl s 1977 short tale, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, which has now been adapted into an eponymously-titled film by Wes Anderson...
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... " The Wonder Effects were " like dessert in the middle of the main course of each stage, they were irresistible and always put a smile on my face, " McCaffrey said...
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... The enjoyable whodunit See How They Run and the psychological period drama The Wonder are also in contention for the British prize...
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... From the bestselling author of The Wonder (recently adapted for Netflix starring Florence Pugh) and Oscar-winning film Room, Emma Donoghue s Learned by Heart tells the real-life love story of Eliza Raine and Anne Lister, whose diaries were the inspiration for the BBC series Gentleman Jack...
Lost Bristol 'wonder pup' stuns owner after city adventure
...A dog dubbed " The Wonder pup" managed to navigate his way home through a busy city while his owner searched for him...
'Dom was one of the best - quiet but curious'
... He saw The Wonder in the wet...
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... " What attracted us to lo-fi is the ability to reimagine our songs in a completely new way that combines the soothing benefits of lo-fi with The Wonder and nostalgia that Disney has to offer...
Manchester Arena bombing: Saffie Roussos's parents on hearing the truth
... That meant telling as wide an audience as possible about The Wonder of his little girl and the happiness she brought...
Lost Bristol 'wonder pup' stuns owner after city adventure
A dog dubbed " The Wonder pup" managed to navigate His Way home through a busy city while his owner searched for him.
Pip passed some of Bristol's most iconic monuments on his 4. 6-mile walk after he was separated from his owner on a stroll in Leigh Woods.
While Libby Bowles was searching for her Rescue Dog , he managed to find His Way to her house in just 90 Minutes .
He was seen crossing the Clifton Suspension Bridge before arriving home 20 Minutes before Ms Bowles did.
Pip disappeared on 18 September at around 14:30 BST and his owner took to local lost and found Facebook groups to try and find him.
Ms Bowles said she had a " sick feeling" when she realised he was missing and felt " quite shaken".
She Said : " He does go off in The Woods and chase squirrels, it happens fairly regularly that I can't see him but usually I can hear his bell ringing. "
As she wondered if she would see her dog again, the 47-year-old started to get messages from people who had spotted Pip making His Way through Bristol.
He was seen on Whiteladies Road, And Then passing BBC Bristol, the Wills Memorial Building, Park Street , The Centre, Prince Street Bridge and East Street , before arriving at his Bedminster home.
Ms Bowles, who works in sustainability education, used tip-offs from people who saw Pip to find the CCTV footage after an " incredible community effort".
She Said : " It makes me cringe to think of him crossing the big roads and a big roundabout but somehow he did it. "
Known as 'Pip The Wonder Pup', The Dog has a reputation for being quite a character in Bristol.
Ms Bowles cycles with him in her rucksack and says " there's a ripple of laughter and smiling" when people see him.
She adopted Pip from Spain in March 2019. He is a podenco - a rabbit-hunting hound that is often referred to as an " invisible dog" or " The Great forgotten".
Pip became a therapy dog in 2019 and is part of a programme called Read2Dogs, a scheme in which children can improve their literacy skills and wellbeing by reading to dogs.
Ms Bowles plans On Writing a book about Pip's adventure around Bristol, which children can read back to him.
Source of news: bbc.com
