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The Wonder

English · Paperback

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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, 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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A chilling novel from the bestselling author of Room.

Product details

Authors Emma Donoghue
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
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

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