Eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell 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.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
ISBN: 9781035038824
Publication date: 08/10/2024
Price: $24.99
RRP: $24.99
Format: Paperback
Available stock: 1
Publishing status: Active
Author: Donoghue, Emma
Series: Picador Collection
Imprint: Picador
