The wonder
By: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781509818389
Subjects: Fasting; Sick children; Historical fiction; Social life and customs; Nurses; Religious aspects; Girls; Fiction; Ireland; Manners and customs
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published 2016 by Little, Brown and Company, New York.