The wonder

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Emma Donoghue: The wonder (2016)

291 pages

English language

Published Nov. 3, 2016

ISBN:
978-1-5098-1839-6
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OCLC Number:
959305466

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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.

9 editions

Subjects

  • Fasting
  • Sick children
  • Historical fiction
  • Social life and customs
  • Nurses
  • Religious aspects
  • Girls
  • Fiction
  • Ireland
  • Manners and customs

Places

  • Ireland