Deadline is exclusively reporting that Florence Pugh is set to star in The Wonder, director Sebastián Lelio’s film adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel.

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The novel is set in 1859, Irish Midlands, following an English nurse named Lib Wright, who is summoned to a tiny village to observe what some are claiming as medical anomaly or a miracle…a girl said to have survived without food for months. Tourists have flocked to the cabin of the eleven-year-old and a journalist has come down to cover the sensation. The story is a tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, as well as be a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.

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Alice Birch will be writing the script, with Ed Guiney and Tessa Ross serving as producers. Production is currently scheduled to commence in Ireland this coming August.