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1509818383

The wonder.

Author: Donoghue, Emma.

Publication year: 2016

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Publisher: London : Picador, 2016.

ISBN: 1509818383 9781509818389 (hbk): 14.99

Notes:

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 16th and the 20th centuries - 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.