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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781509818402
- Categories BX, BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, RM 10 - RM 19.99
- Author(s) Emma Donoghue
- Publisher Picador
- Pages 368
- Format Paperback B
- Dimensions 19.7cm x 2.5cm x 12.9cm
- Weight 0.255 kg
product 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.
