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.
Product details
- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Picador; Media tie-in edition (24 Sept. 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1509803157
- ISBN-13: 978-1509803156
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm
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