PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781509820788
- Categories BX, BXOS, Crime, extraordinary, F CTM, Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, WBD
- Author(s) Emma Donoghue
- Publisher Picador
- Pages 350
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 11.1cm x 2.3cm x 17.8cm
- Weight 0.41 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.