Description
| Product ID: | 9781509818402 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Wonder |
| Authors: | Author: Emma Donoghue |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A chilling novel from the bestselling author of Room. <p><b>A major film from the makers of <i>Normal People </i>and<i> Room</i>, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.<br><br>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 . . .</b><br><br>Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's <i>The Wonder </i>– 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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-05-18 |
