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A Wonderful Little Girl
Siân Busby
其他書名
Starving for Fame: How Sarah Jacobs Bewitched the World
出版Short, 2004
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalJuvenile Nonfiction / GeneralJuvenile Nonfiction / Family / GeneralReligion / Sermons / GeneralSocial Science / Children's Studies
ISBN19040957049781904095705
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CNM_NwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Beautiful, gifted, dearly loved, Sarah seemed to have everything to live for. Why on earth would she want to starve herself to death? vivacious, she charmed everyone she met. Then, one day, she suddenly stopped eating. It soon became clear that this was no schoolgirl's prank. For the next two years, Sarah allegedly did not eat or drink anything at all. She seemed to be living on thin air. told the many thousands of visitors who flocked to her bedside, a gift from God, being sustained by nothing but her faith? Or was she, as the doctors argued, rather a dangerous show-off, who was secretly feeding herself at night to trick the public and become famous? Perhaps something more sinister was afoot. Sarah, a team of doctors descended on the Jacobs' tiny Carmathenshire farmstead to put the miracle girl to the test - with terrible consequences.