The wonder : a novel / Emma Donoghue.
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TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 291 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316393874Subject(s): Girls -- Fiction | Fasting -- Fiction | Nurses -- Fiction | Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- FictionDDC classification: 823/.914 LOC classification: PR6054.O547 | W67 2016Summary: Lib Wright, an English nurse trained by Florence Nightingale, arrives in an Irish village with a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell is said to have eaten nothing for four months. With tourists thronging to see the child, and the press sowing doubt, the baffled community looks to an outsider to bring the truth to light. Lib's job is simple: to stay in the girl's room at all hours, watching her. Is Anna a fraud or a "living wonder"? Or is something more sinister unfolding right before Lib's eyes?
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Lib Wright, an English nurse trained by Florence Nightingale, arrives in an Irish village with a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell is said to have eaten nothing for four months. With tourists thronging to see the child, and the press sowing doubt, the baffled community looks to an outsider to bring the truth to light. Lib's job is simple: to stay in the girl's room at all hours, watching her. Is Anna a fraud or a "living wonder"? Or is something more sinister unfolding right before Lib's eyes?
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