The wonder / Emma Donoghue.
Publication details: London : Picador, 2015.Description: 291 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781509818396 (paperback)
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | DON | Available | 065184 |
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First published 2016 by Little, Brown and Company, New York.
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, 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.