THE WONDER begins with a Florence Nightingale-trained nurse going to an impoverished Irish Village to check on an eleven year-old girl who is said to have eaten nothing for four months. The book eventually shows the intimacy between people from different worlds.
THIS COPY (shown below) was hand signed by Emma Donoghue on a page that was bound into the book. It is a new, unread, unopened first edition and comes with a certificate authenticating the signature. Published in September, 2016 by Little Brown, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group.
EMMA DONOGHUE (pictured below from our Wall of Fame) is a singular force on the world writing stage. Her books have been translated into forty languages and she has won a boatload of writing awards in many countries. She writes fiction, YA, history and short stories. She is also an awarded screen writer. We were honored to have introduced her at our regional trade show dinner and found her as delightful on the stage as on the page. Thank you Emma Donoghue for signing our books.
