![]() ![]() 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. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. ![]() 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 outsiders - 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. 'The Pull of the Stars' probes pandemic-era. A small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" ( Kirkus Reviews) Emma Donoghue's latest novel, set in a maternity ward during the 1918 flu outbreak, offers prescient lessons on women's suffering in pandemics. Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. ![]()
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