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The Wonder by Emma Donoghue · Booklabria

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Emma Donoghue
The Wonder

Thrillers, SuspenseSocial life and customs

The Wonder

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First published: 2016
Editions: 18 in 3 languages

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Thrillers, Suspense
Social life and customs
Historical
Manners and customs
Psychological
Girls
Set in: Ireland
Time: 19th Century; 1850s

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18 in 3 languages

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English15 Polish1 Spanish1

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