{"product_id":"the-wonder-by-emma-donoghue-9781529093001","title":"The Wonder","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow a major film from the makers of \u003cem\u003eNormal People\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'An old-school page turner with crackling intensity'\u003c\/em\u003e - Stephen King\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Powerful, compulsively readable'\u003c\/em\u003e - Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's \u003cem\u003eThe Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e - 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244776337644,"sku":"9781529093001","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529093001-the-wonder-1.jpg?v=1788012822","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-wonder-by-emma-donoghue-9781529093001","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}