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Emma Donoghue
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The Wonder |
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English |
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Paperback |
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368 |
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2017-05-18 |
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1509818405 |
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Picador |
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0.53 pounds |
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0.91 x 5.12 x 7.76 inches |
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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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