The Wonder (Paperback, Air Iri Ome)

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.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2016
Authors:	Emma Donoghue
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	291
Edition:	Air Iri Ome
ISBN-13:	978-1-5098-1839-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	1-5098-1839-1
Barcode:	9781509818396

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