Book meme- Day 18
Apr. 7th, 2019 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scripsi18. Bought on a recommendation.
Most of what I read come recommended to me one way or another. But the last time I read a book explicitly recommended to me in person was The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, which My Mum had read and wanted to discuss.
It was very interesting, so I’m glad I read it. It’s a historical novel, set in the 19th century where an English nurse goes to Ireland to take care of a little girl who has stopped eating- and should already be dead from lack of food. The village considers her a saint, the nurse suspects foul play. It builds on real historical events- girls who starved themselves in religion’s name have happened over the centuries. So I can recommend the book with the caveat that it does contain sexual abuse of a minor, albeit non-descriptive.
Most of what I read come recommended to me one way or another. But the last time I read a book explicitly recommended to me in person was The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, which My Mum had read and wanted to discuss.
It was very interesting, so I’m glad I read it. It’s a historical novel, set in the 19th century where an English nurse goes to Ireland to take care of a little girl who has stopped eating- and should already be dead from lack of food. The village considers her a saint, the nurse suspects foul play. It builds on real historical events- girls who starved themselves in religion’s name have happened over the centuries. So I can recommend the book with the caveat that it does contain sexual abuse of a minor, albeit non-descriptive.
