The Wonder Paperback

The Wonder Paperback

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Author :Emma Donoghue

Condition : Used-LikeNew

Binding : Soft-Back

Pages : 256

Publisher : Picador

Language : N/A

Publication Year : N/A

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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SKU: GB4202
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Categories: Fiction, Literary
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Author :Emma Donoghue

Condition : Used-LikeNew

Binding : Soft-Back

Pages : 256

Publisher : Picador

Language : N/A

Publication Year : N/A

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.