The Wonder - Donoghue Emma - 2016

This is the first UK edition. 291 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. 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. Quantity Available: 3. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN/EAN: 9781509818396. Inventory No: 20050143. By: Donoghue Emma Year: 2016 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at: