01437cam a2200313 i 4500 21383 21383 935195817 OCoLC 20190501224141.0 160718s2016 nyu 000 1 eng d bl2016030372 9780316393874 PR6054.O547 W67 2016 823/.914 23 Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author. The wonder : a novel / Emma Donoghue. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2016. 291 pages ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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? Girls Fiction. Fasting Fiction. Nurses Fiction. Ireland Social life and customs 19th century Fiction. .b14608746x ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2017-01-03 27.00 5 DONO 36344 2023-11-21 2023-11-15 2017-01-03 BOOK