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In Netflix's new period drama The Wonder, an English nurse named Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) arrives in Ireland to attend to Anna O'Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), an 11-year-old girl who claims.
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The one-paragraph version: Nurse Lib Wright travel to Ireland on a two-week assignment to observe Anna O'Donnell, an 11-year-old devoutly religious girl whose parents claim she can live without food. Lib eventually realizes (with the help of William Byrne, a journalist) that Anna was being secretly given food before and is now starving to death.
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Anna O'Donnell, an 11-year-old girl in village Ireland, not long after the Great Famine, refuses to eat and says she's been kept alive by manna from heaven.
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Anna O'Donnell is a Catholic girl in 1850s Ireland who has not eaten since her 11th birthday, four months before the story begins. She says she lives on "manna from heaven" and drinks only.
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It's 1862 and we're on a boat. A decade after the great famine, English nurse Elizabeth "Lib" Wright is travelling to a village in the Irish midlands to attend local girl Anna O'Donnell.
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"Anna O'Donnell (Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months, surviving miraculously on 'manna from heaven.' As Anna's health rapidly deteriorates, Lib is.
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Anna O'Donnell, a devout 11-year-old Roman Catholic girl, has taken no food - not even arrowroot or beef tea, only the occasional sip of fresh water - since her most recent birthday four months.
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Florence Pugh as Lib Wright and Kíla Lord Cassidy as Anna O'Donnell in The Wonder. Aidan Monaghan/Netflix. In a controversial opening scene, the camera pans over a warehouse interior to a film.
How Did Anna Survive Without Food in The Wonder? Why Did She Fast?
After much anticipation, The Wonder arrived on Netflix this week. The film stars Florence Pugh, one of the buzziest actresses of the moment, as Lib Wright, a 19th-century English nurse who is sent to the Irish Midlands to observe Anna O'Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), a deeply religious 11-year-old girl who claims she hasn't eaten in four months and subsists solely on 'manna from heaven'.
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The Wonder is a 2016 novel by Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue . Set in post-famine Ireland, the novel follows English nurse Elizabeth Wright as she cares for a supposed miraculous girl, who has survived without sustenance for four months. The novel received positive reviews upon release and was nominated for the 2016 Giller Prize. [1]
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The whole reason Nurse Wright is summoned by a self-appointed committee to a village in Ireland is that many people want to believe a young girl called Anna O'Donnell has miraculously lived.
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Florence Pugh as Lib Wright and Kíla Lord Cassidy as Anna O'Donnell in The Wonder. AIDAN MONAGHAN/NETFLIX. In the Irish Midlands in 1862, an 11-year-old girl stops eating but remains.
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Pugh plays Lib, a nurse from London invited to an Irish village to verify its claim that 11-year-old Anna O'Donnell hasn't eaten in four months. Skeptical of the villagers' belief that Anna is evidence of a heavenly miracle, she looks for a logical explanation as she grows more concerned for Anna's well-being.
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Directed by Sebastián Lelio, Netflix's period film 'The Wonder' revolves around an English nurse named Elizabeth "Lib" Wright, who arrives in a rural village in Ireland to "watch" Anna O'Donnell, who has been surviving without food for four months. The elders of the village ask Lib to take care of Anna. Even though Anna is satisfied with her present condition, Lib sets out to.
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by Emma Donoghue. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell 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 . . . Inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, The Wonder is a.
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Anna O'Donnell is not based on any particular girl. However, Emma Donoghue, the co-screenwriter of the film and the author of the eponymous source novel of the film, was inspired by the real-life phenomenon of fasting girls to conceive the protagonist of her novel. "The Wonder is an invented story, but what inspired it was the very real.