The Wonder

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  • Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2016)
  • Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2016)
  • Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
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The Wonder

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ISBN: 9781509820788
Authors: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2017-05-18
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Mystery
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 85613 readers)

Description

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.
 

  • Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2016)
  • Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2016)
  • Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.