A small Irish village is mystified by what appears to be a miracle but may actually be murder in the next masterpiece from New York Timesbestselling author Emma Donoghue. A small village in 1850s rural Ireland is baffled by Anna O'Donnell's fast, which began as a self-inflicted a...
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A small village in 1850s rural Ireland is baffled by Anna O'Donnell's fast, which began as a self-inflicted and earnest expression of faith. After weeks of subsisting only on what she calls "manna from heaven," the story of the "miracle" has reached a fever pitch. Tourists flock ...
Hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but "manna from heaven" for months, Lib Wright, a journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, expects to expose the fast as a hoax within days. But the long hou...