The Wonder

　　An 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. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, The Wonder - inspired by numerous European and North American 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.

作者簡介

愛瑪．唐納修 Emma Donoghue

　　Born in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who spent eight years in England before moving to Canada. Her fiction includes Slammerkin, Life Mask, Touchy Subjects and the international bestseller Room (shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes).

　　一九六九年出生於都柏林，作品以當代及歷史小說為主。已出版長篇小說包括暢銷書《蕩婦》（Slammerkin）、《封緘的信》（The Sealed Letter）、《著陸》（Landing）、《生者面具》（Life Mask）、《頭罩》（Hood）及《炒》（Stirfry）；短篇小說集包括《生兔子的女人》（The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits）、《親吻女巫》（Kissing The Witch）及《敏感話題》（Touchy Subjects）。她還撰寫文學史、舞台劇與廣播劇。她跟同居人和兩個年幼的孩子住在倫敦與安大略（加拿大）。個人網站：www.emmadonoghue.com。