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We are told that an 11-year-old girl, Anna O’Donnell, who has confined herself to a cramped bedroom in her impoverished parents’ home in 1850s rural Ireland, has not eaten for four months. Donoghue’s literary prowess creeps like a dark, menacing fog across the pages. Most characters cannot be trusted even God is suspect. The storyline of The Wonder is far more tangled and nuanced. But in Room, we know who the villain is: a sexual predator who has kidnapped a young woman, fathered a son with her, and keeps the two of them imprisoned for years in one tiny cell.

On the surface, The Wonder displays numerous similarities with Room, the Irish-Canadian Donoghue’s most famous novel. Inside is a child, and once again, the child’s life is in danger.

Emma Donoghue’s latest novel thrusts us back into a small, claustrophobic room.