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The Wonder

by Emma Donoghue

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Description

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, Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American cases of ‘fasting girls’ between the sixteenth century and the twentieth - 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.

Details

The Wonder
by Emma Donoghue

ISBN
9781509818389

Publisher
Pan Macmillan

Binding
Hardback

Publication date
Sept. 22, 2016

Dimensions
21.6cm x 13.5cm x 2.5cm

Page count
304 pages