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The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue review – countdown to disaster

A train on a fateful trajectory is the location for a zippy Agatha Christie-like thriller giving a taste of life in fin-de-siècle France

The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2025

Emma Donoghue: ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull blew my tiny mind’

The Room author on adoring Alan Garner, inspirational Sylvia Plath and the wisdom of Terry Pratchett

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024

The Pull of the Stars review – Emma Donoghue adapts her Spanish flu novel for an all-female cast

Set in a 1918 maternity ward, the play offers moments of tenderness amid its commentary on political and social upheaval

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024

What to stream: 'The Wonder' and other standout performances from Florence Pugh

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s latest film, “The Wonder,” makes its streaming debut on Netflix this week, premiering Wednesday. “The Wonder” is co-written by Lelio, Alice Birch and Emma Donoghue, on whose 2016 novel the film is based. The film takes place in 1862 Ireland, where an English nurse, played by…

Tribune News Service · Nov 15, 2022

‘Like winning the lottery!’ – Kíla Lord Cassidy on starring in The Wonder, the stunning film she’s too young to see

The actor gives an astonishing performance in this movie about a miracle ‘fasting girl’ in rural Ireland. Shame she’ll have to wait two years to see it. We talk to the teen talent and her co-star mother

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2022

Behind the scenes of Florence Pugh’s new film The Wonder: “It’s almost like going to another planet”

From Florence Pugh feeding the cast on-set to some very meta film-making

Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2022

Tom Burke: ‘Alan Rickman was like family, really’

The actor on tapping into his sinister side for Joanna Hogg’s Sundance hit The Souvenir, losing godfather Alan Rickman, and growing sideburns for new film The Wonder

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2022

Irish author Emma Donoghue of ‘Room’ fame says she’s feeling confident about Oscar glory for new Netflix hit 'The Wonder'

“I think Florence's performance is absolutely unnervingly good.”

Irish Mirror · Oct 28, 2022