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The Secret History · Tartt
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Emma Donoghue
2016 · Little, Brown and Company · 291 pages
Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's *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. ------- In this masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, an English nurse brought to a …
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A plot-driven with strong character, tense and immersive read.
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