‘Our wonder boy had craniofacial op at four months’

The parents of baby Finn put their faith in the doctors at Temple Street after they learnt their boy’s skull would be disfigured without surgery, writes Jen Hogan.

A new Hollywood movie Wonder, based on R.J Palacio’s best-selling book, and starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay is due on our screens later this year.

Telling the tale of a boy with facial differences who attends mainstream school for the first time in fifth grade, it shows how he and his family cope with the many challenges and issues that arise because of how he looks.