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The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
2017, hardcover
Internationally bestselling author Emma Donoghue's first children's book follows the domestic adventures of a large, rumbustious, multicultural family. The Lotterys, as they call themselves, are headed up by a lesbian couple and a gay couple who joined forces to create a family, won a lottery jackpot and moved into a Victorian Gothic mansion in Toronto, where their enormous brood is home-schooled. It all seems perfectly normal to nine-year-old Sumac until their hitherto obscure grandfather Grumps comes to stay, upending the Lotterys' already chaotic family life.
The Wonder Emma Donoghue
My Rating. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: September 20, 2016
“Anna O'Donnell claims –or, rather, her parents claim–that she hasn’t taken food since her eleventh birthday.” The Wonder
SUMMARY
Lib Wright, an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village in the Irish Midlands in the 1850’s to observe what appears to be a miracle. A girl is said to have survived without food for four months. The nurse is committed to uncovering the fraud, but soon finds herself fighting to save the girl’s life.
Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell believes herself to be living off manna from heaven. Hordes of tourist flock to the house everyday to see the living marvel. Lib, the parents, a nun, the village priest, Anna’s doctor, and a journalist all play a crucial role in this powerful psychological thriller.
THE WONDER intricately weaves a tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, and a story of truth pitted against evil.
REVIEW
Is it a extraordinary wonder or is it a hoax? Could it be both? Lib barrels into the tiny village so sure she knows that it’s a hoax that you don’t know whether to be impressed by her confidence or annoyed with her arrogance. Her character was strong; she stood up, she spoke up and she fought for the truth. As a Nightingale nurse she was taught “it’s better to drown, than stand idly on the shore.”
Anna an 11-year-old soft faced girl, who is humble, smart, prayerful and clever. Was she a living marvel? Could she be “false little baggage.” Why weren’t her parent doing something to make her eat? What about the motivations of the priest or the doctor? Is anyone really seeking the truth? So many questions to be unraveled. To Anna, the truth may be not simple.
Donoghue’s inspiration for The Wonder comes from some fifty cases in the British Isles, Western Europe and North America of so-called “fasting girls” between the16th and 20th century. Some of these girls claimed religious motives although many didn’t.
The Wonder was thought-provoking and engaging. The setting, the story, and the characters all combined to captivate me from page one.
“Clearly the Irish Midlands were a depression where wet pooled, the little circle in a saucer.” -The Wonder
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