The Wonder
Fasting
Sick children
Catholicism
Ireland, fiction
Nurses
Survival
Girls
Fiction, historical
Fiction, psychological
Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Manners and customs
Fiction, historical, general
Religious aspects
New York Times reviewed
Social life and customs
Large type books
Fiction
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. …
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