Twelve-year-old Sarah Jacob was the most famous from the Victorian fasting girls, who claimed to miraculously survive without food, serving as flash factors between struggling spiritual, scientific, and political factions. With this novel predicated on Sarah’s existence and premature death from what could be the initial noted case of anorexia, an American journalist, recovering from her husband’s death in the Civil Battle, leaves her house and children behind to go to Wales, where she investigates Sarah’s bizarre case by becoming the young girl’s friend and confidante. Unable to prevent the girl’s tragic decrease while doctors, nurses, and an area priest keep view, she paperwork the curious family members powerful, the trial that convicted Sarah’s parents, and an era’s hysterical need to both believe and damage Sarah’s seemingly miraculous power.

Intense, dark, and absolutely compelling, The Welsh Fasting Young lady delves in to the complexities of a genuine story to understand what sort of culture’s anxieties resulted in the murder of a kid.