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Title: Wonder, The
Author: DONOGHUE EMMA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/09/2016
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $9.95
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781509818396
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 256