The wonder
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-2016
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An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, 'The Wonder' - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the 16th and the 20th centuries - is a psychological thriller about a child's murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
Main title:
The wonder / Emma Donoghue.
Author:
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2016.
Collation:
291 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Radio tie-in.
ISBN:
9781509818389 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92THRGTFAF
LC class:
PR6054.O547
Local class:
FTFICFAF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1649922