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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, 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.
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The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- The Wonder
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Emma Donoghue
- Publisher
- Panmacmillan
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1509820787
- ISBN13
- 9781509820788
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Religious Topics, Christian Themes, England, 19th century, Faith, Adapted for Film, Ireland, Catholic Church, Childhood, Irish Literature, Poverty, Nursing, Caregiving, Emigration, Miracles, Incest, Fasting, Fanaticism, Religious Fanaticism, Child's Thinking
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- The Wonder
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- 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.