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The Wonder : a Novel by Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul. ------- In this masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle -- a girl said to have survived without food for months -- soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna deteriorates, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child, but for getting to the root of why the child may actually be the victim of murder in slow motion. Written with all the propulsive tension that made *Room* a h

Who reads The Wonder : a Novel?

Author

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author

Publisher

New York: Little, Brown and Company

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316393874

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery