Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books 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, 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. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.