The wonder
Publication details: London Picador 2017Description: 349 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781509818402
- WM 157
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Book | BEH-MHT Library Service Shelves | WM 157 DON 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BEH00878 | ||
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Book | Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves | WM 175 DON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 23/10/2023 | 17881 |
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WM 175 AGR The Oxford handbook of eating disorders | WM 175 ALE A collaborative approach to eating disorders | WM 175 BRU Eating disorders: obesity, anorexia nervosa, and the person within | WM 175 DON The wonder | WM 175 FAI Overcoming binge eating / | WM 175 FOX Eating and its disorders | WM 175 FRE The reading cure: how books restored my appetite |
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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