Emma Donoghue
Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 7 – The Wonder
A strange and beautiful period drama full of mystery and miracles – and Florence Pugh is a wonder herself, with a bristling, transfixing performance
Adrian Horton
15, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM
Best films of 2022 in the UK: No 8 – The Wonder
A strange and beautiful period drama full of mystery and miracles – Florence Pugh is a wonder herself, with a bristling, transfixing performance
Adrian Horton
14, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM
The Wonder review – Florence Pugh’s passionate reckoning with a horrific miracle
Pugh drives forward Sebastián Lelio’s haunting adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s story of divine possession
Peter Bradshaw
02, Nov, 2022 @1:00 PM
The Wonder review – a haunting period drama of faith and reason
Florence Pugh stars as a nurse called in to verify a miracle in Sebastián Lelio’s powerful story set in 19th-century Ireland
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
30, Oct, 2022 @8:00 AM
The Wonder review – Florence Pugh is miraculously good in eerie drama
Toronto film festival: The star plays a nurse investigating an alleged miracle in a captivating period thriller about the dangers of religious fervor
Benjamin Lee in Toronto
14, Sep, 2022 @8:24 PM
Haven by Emma Donoghue review – a seventh-century Room
In early medieval Ireland, a priest and two monks struggle to preserve their humanity – and their sanity – in utter isolation
Paraic O’Donnell
19, Aug, 2022 @6:30 AM
Haven by Emma Donoghue review – religious zeal meets ecological warning in AD600 Ireland
The Room author’s new novel is a timely allegory in which three monks face a test of their faith on an uninhabited island
Hephzibah Anderson
14, Aug, 2022 @4:00 PM
Margaret Atwood to edit collaborative modern Decameron for the Covid era
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorised Gathering imagines New York neighbours sharing stories amid the pandemic, with contributors from Dave Eggers to Celeste Ng
Alison Flood
19, Mar, 2021 @2:27 PM
Not the Booker: Akin by Emma Donoghue - daft premise, good writing
The story of an elderly man who takes on the care of his young great-nephew has some lovely moments but strains the reader’s credulity Not the Booker 2020 shortlist: read along with us!
Sam Jordison
21, Sep, 2020 @12:21 PM
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue review – beauty amid horror
The Room author’s tender and evocative novel suffers from a surfeit of misery
Alex Peake-Tomkinson
02, Aug, 2020 @8:00 AM
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue review – fighting the 1918 flu pandemic
Fear and female camaraderie combine in this tale of three Dublin medics’ experiences from the author of Room
Sarah Moss
17, Jul, 2020 @6:30 AM
Emma Donoghue: the lockdown lessons she learned from writing Room
The author’s bestselling novel of confinement has gained new resonance during coronavirus
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
11, May, 2020 @7:40 AM
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