An eleven-year-old girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive & 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 & North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century & 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 & love it is a searing examination of what nourishes us body & soul