The Wonder

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, 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.

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Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife

Product details

• Authors: Emma Donoghue, Donoghue Emma
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.05.2017
• EAN: 9781509818402
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-1840-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: 171 POCHE; 171 POCHE; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, c 1800 to c 1900, Narrative theme: Interior life, Ireland, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, c 1850 to c 1859