The wonder
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-2017
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Total copies: 1
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 16th and the 20th centuries - 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.
Main title:
The wonder / Emma Donoghue.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 2017.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Radio tie-in.Originally published: 2016.
ISBN:
9781509818402 (pbk)1509818405 (pbk)
Dewey class:
GEN
LC class:
PR6054.O547
Language:
English
Related title:
The Wonder [electronic resource] : Now a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh
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BRN:
303294