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By: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Published: September 2016
Pages: 256
Categories: Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Hardback, Ebook, Audio
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ISBN-13: 9781509818389
ISBN: 1509818383
ASIN: 1509818383

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.

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