- Irish Midlands, Nightingale Nurse, Post Crimean War, Inspired by Real Life Events
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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and intimate.
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Ediciones B, HarperPerennial, Picador
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Spanish, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9781478911753
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Grew up in Ireland, 20s in England doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature, since then in Canada. Best known for my novel, film and play ROOM, also other contemporary and historical novels and short stories, non-fiction, theatre and middle-grade novels.
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