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The Wonder

byEmma Donoghue

Who is this book for? Readers interested in psychological thrillers with historical settings and strong character development.

Topics SurvivalFaith and BeliefMorality
MoodSuspenseful, Dark, Reflective
Female protagonist
ViolenceMild
A major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.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 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.

Language

es

Published on

18/05/2017

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781509818402

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