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The wonder

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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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Picador
1509818383 / 9781509818389
Hardback
823.92
22/09/2016
United Kingdom
English
General
291 pages
23 cm
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