![]() ![]() ![]() Elizabeth ‘Lib’ Wright is a nurse who trained with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Set in rural Ireland in 1859, in the shadows of the Irish Famine and the Crimean War, the main protagonists have had disturbing brushes with death and suffering which impact the way they behave and how they interact with one another. Shortly after, I picked up The Wonder and it’s been sitting in my TBR pile ever since! I resolved to read it while I was away over Easter and, my goodness, it did not disappoint. Emma Donoghue’s Room was I think my favourite of that batch (both the film and the book) and was one of my best reads of that year. One of my earliest posts on this blog was a comparison of a handful of books with their film adaptations it was 2016, a bumper year for great books in the Oscars with The Danish Girl, The Revenant, Room and Carol all nominated. ![]()
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