{"product_id":"9781509818402","title":"The Wonder","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Donoghue, Emma\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 18 May 2017 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 131 x 24 | 262g\u003cp\u003eA major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donoghue, Emma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465718829240,"sku":"9781509818402","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781509818402.jpg?v=1734706240","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781509818402","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}