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.
© 2016 Macmillan Digital Audio (Äänikirja): 9781509824618
Julkaisupäivä
Äänikirja: 22. syyskuuta 2016
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.
© 2016 Macmillan Digital Audio (Äänikirja): 9781509824618
Julkaisupäivä
Äänikirja: 22. syyskuuta 2016
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Oona
17. huhtik. 2022
This story seems at first a bit slow, but the mystery and the fate of the little girl keeps you hooked on the story. It's exquisitely read.
Eerika
22. marrask. 2022
This book has a fantastic story and completely ordinary yet fascinating characters who are relatable despite their 19th century setting. I thoroughly enjoyed The Wonder and highly recommend it to anyone interested in a slow burner mystery!
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