Wonderful Little Girl : Sarah Jacob: The True Story of Sarah Jacob the Welsh Fasting Girl

by SianBusby (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.25

  On a winter's day in 1869, two surgeons performed an autopsy on the body of a 12-year-old Welsh girl who had died in strange circumstances. The child, even in death, was very beautiful. Yet there were signs that she had suffered greatly towards the end. This is the true story of a remarkable child, who enchanted everyone, but who, at the age of ten, suddenly took to her bed. During the last two years of her life she allegedly had nothing to eat or drink at all - and yet mysteriously survived. Sarah Jacob's family claimed she was a miracle, and as her fame grew, thousands flocked to her bedside. Was she living on thin air? Doctors felt compelled to investigate and began a round-the-clock vigil which quickly killed her. Sarah Jacob was a tragic child celebrity: a victim of the era in which she lived, when Science and Faith were grappling with the conscience of man.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.25

  There was only one way to find out. Determined to expose the truth about Sarah, a team of doctors descended on the Jacobs' tiny Carmathenshire farmstead to put the miracle girl to the test - with terrible consequences.