The Welsh Fasting Girl Audiobook (Free)

Twelve-year-old Sarah Jacob was the most famous from the Victorian fasting girls, who claimed to miraculously survive without food, serving as flash points between struggling religious, scientific, and political factions. Within this novel based on Sarah’s existence and premature loss of life from what may be the first documented case of anorexia, an American journalist, recovering from her husband’s death in the Civil War, leaves her home and kids behind to travel 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 files the curious family members powerful, the trial that convicted Sarah’s parents, and an era’s hysterical need to both believe and destroy Sarah’s apparently miraculous power.

Intense, dark, and utterly powerful, The Welsh Fasting Young lady delves into the complexities of a genuine story to understand what sort of culture’s anxieties led to the murder of a kid.