01283cam a2200241 4500 1147829162 TxAuBib ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u bl2016030372 9780316393874 0316393878 TxAuBib 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. 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? Fasting Fiction. Girls Fiction. Nurses Fiction. Ireland Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.