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.
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781509818402
Publication Date: 18th May, 2017
Pages: 349
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 25 mm
Availability: Available, usually dispatched within 4 days
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