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The Wonder

The Wonder

by Emma Donoghue
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/09/2016
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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, 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
9781509818396
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-09-2016
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x21mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer living in Canada. Her 2010 novel, Room, was an internationally award-winning bestseller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Emma's screenplay for Room's multi-award-winning film adaptation has earned her an Oscar nomination.

The Lottery's More or Less is the second book in her children's series The Lotterys. Caroline Hadilaksono was born in Indonesia and moved to Los Angeles when she was twelve. She now lives and works in New York, where she is a freelance designer and illustrator, working on everything from children's books to murals.

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