![]() ![]() In Chapter One, Lib Wright is young woman who became a nurse, training under the famed Florence Nightingale, after her husband died. ![]() The book ends with Lib and William traveling to Australia with Anna, who is eating again. ![]() Lib finally decides to kidnap Anna and make it look like Anna’s remains were burnt up in a fire. The family does not believe Anna’s claims (of molestation) and the local priest blames Anna for being molested. Moreover, Anna is choosing to “fast” and letting people believe it is a miracle because she considers it a sacrifice to save the soul of her recently-deceased brother, who had been molesting her for years. Lib eventually realizes (with the help of William Byrne, a journalist) that Anna was being secretly given food before and is now starving to death. The one-paragraph version: Nurse Lib Wright travel to Ireland on a two-week assignment to observe Anna O’Donnell, an 11-year-old devoutly religious girl whose parents claim she can live without food. ![]()
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