The Pull of the Stars

A Novel

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Publisher Description

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, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews).

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. 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 the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
July 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown and Company
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
1.8
MB

Customer Reviews

e.peridots ,

The Pull of The Stars

Liked the story but was unnerved by the lack of quotations in this book. I had to mentally add the quotes while reading dialogue, which slowed my pace and affected my reading experience.

Am book reader ,

Excellent

As a nurse I found it amazing what the conditions were medically, warfare and the worst pandemic in history.

SHAUMT ,

Riveting

It’s been a long while since I could not put a book down.

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