Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial :https://esound.space/audibleTitle: The WonderAuthor: Emma DonoghueNarrator: Kate LockFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 26 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-22-16Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.Genres: Fiction, HistoricalSummary:An 11-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 European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the 16th century and the 20th - 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.Contact: [email protected]

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