The wonder
(eAudiobook)
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Published
[Hampshire] : Macmillan Digital Audio, 2016.
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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eAudiobook
Language
English
ISBN
9781509824618
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General Note
Downloadable eAudiobook.
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Fiction.
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Duration: 12:58:00.
Participants/Performers
Read by Kate Lock.
Description
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.
Target Audience
Adult.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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