The Wonder

An eleven-year-old girl 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 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.

Prizes

Short-listed for Bord Gáis Energy Eason Novel of the Year 2016 (UK),Short-listed for Kerry Group Irish Novel Award 2017 (UK),Long-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2018 (UK)