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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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18 editions · 4 languages- Paperback · English · 2017Picador · 9781509818402
- Audiobook · English · 2016Little, Brown & Company · 9781478911753
- Other · English · 2022WonderPan Macmillan · 9781529093001
- Other · English · 2022WonderLittle Brown & Company · 9780316564465
- Other · English · 2018HarperPerennial · 9781443450034
- Other · English · 2017HarperCollins Publishers · 9781443453790
Irish MidlandsNightingale NursePost Crimean WarInspired by Real Life EventsFastingCatholicismIreland, fictionFiction, psychological