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The Wonder

The Wonder

Emma Donoghue

Now a major Netflix film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' - Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' - The Irish TimesEleven-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 ...

Editorial:
Pan Macmillan
Año de edición:
2024
ISBN:
978-1-0350-3882-4
Páginas:
368
Q. 130
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Now a major Netflix film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh.'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity' - Stephen King'Powerful, compulsively readable' - The Irish TimesEleven-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.

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