The wonder

By:

Donoghue, Emma

Publication details: London Picador 2017Description: 349 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781509818402

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WM 157

Summary: 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, 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.

List(s) this item appears in: Homerton: Telling Tales reading list

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	BEH-MHT Library Service Shelves	WM 157 DON 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		BEH00878
Book	BEH-MHT Library Service Shelves	WM 157 DON 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		BEH00879
Book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves	WM 175 DON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	23/10/2023	17881

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, 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.

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