In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. It’s suspenseful, exhilarating, and heartbreaking in equal measure. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. The Pull of the Stars A Novel Emma Donoghue Almost all of the action in this historical novel takes place in one room over three days: a hospital ward for pregnant women afflicted with the Spanish flu in 1918 Dublin. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiderz-Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love.
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