The wonder, a novel, Emma Donoghue
Type
Label
The wonder, a novel, Emma Donoghue
Language
eng
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
The wonder
Music parts
not applicable
Oclc number
951820877
Responsibility statement
Emma Donoghue
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"Lib Wright, a young English nurse trained by legendary Florence Nightingale, arrives in an impoverished 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 bare room at all hours, watching her. An educated skeptic repelled by what she sees as ignorance and superstition, Lib expects to expose the fast as a hoax within days. But the long hours she spends with Anna begin to erode all her assumptions about the child, the Irish, and herself. Is Anna a fraud or a "living wonder"? Or is something more sinister unfolding right before Lib's eyes?"--From container
Target audience
general
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Classification
Creator
Subject
Content
Author
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject7
- Content1
- Author1
- Mapped to1