The case of the girl Anna O'Donnell spread throughout Ireland as far back as 1840.
At eleven years old, the little girl had not eaten for four months, according to what her humble parents began assuring and neighbors continued to comment. Until that survival to such a period of starvation without fatal consequences spreads to any corner of Ireland through the press.
The anomaly or wonder becomes the object of official verification and study. Elizabeth Lib Wright, a nurse by profession, is hired to supervise the girl.
El book The Prodigy he gets drunk on that nineteenth-century environment where reason and empiricism still have to ride on dark beliefs, trickery and old myths that still find souls to inhabit fully.
Elizabeth intends to open everyone's eyes, but her research will not be without surprises, suspicions, mysteries and a halo of prodigious miracle that could destroy any doctrine cultivated for years on the human being.
Or perhaps the case of the young Anna is about an interested scheme of family and / or neighbors.
You will have to fully immerse yourself in this beautiful story of a traditional as well as fantastic Ireland, which passed through the nineteenth century in half-light towards the light of reason.
Mysterious and even enigmatic. This story, with its simple starting point in an extraordinary event, will show you how fascinating a wonderfully told story can be.
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