The Wonder

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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 st ory . . .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. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781509818402 BY (AUTHOR) Donoghue, Emma PUBLISHER : Pan Macmillan PUBLICATION DATE : May 18, 2017 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Picador LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 197 mm x 129 mm WEIGHT : 246 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more