The Wonder

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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

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