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Author:

Donoghue, Emma, author.

Title:

The wonder : a novel / Emma Donoghue.

Edition:

First Back Bay paperback edition.

Publisher:

Back Bay Books,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

297, 8 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Nurses--Fiction.
Sick children--Fiction.
Fasting--Religious aspects--Fiction.
Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
Fasting--Religious aspects.
Manners and customs.
Nurses.
Sick children.
Ireland.
1800-1899
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Notes:

Includes questions for topics and discussion and an excerpt from the author's novel, Room.

Summary:

Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.

ISBN:

031639386X
9780316393867

OCLC:

(OCoLC)968300176

Locations:

BRPD251 -- Adel Public Library (Adel)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)