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The Wonder

Emma Donoghue

The Wonder

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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
Year
2016
ISBN-13
9781509818419
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Faith and miraclesPsychological suspenseChild endangerment

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