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The Wonder

Emma Donoghue

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#2392 of 8,085 books · #358 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (2016) and the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (2016).

Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell 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.

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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13
9781509818419
Topics
Faith and miraclesPsychological suspenseChild endangerment

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