A chilling new novel from the bestselling author of }Room{, set in the Irish midlands in the 1850s. An 11-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. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.