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.
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.
