The Pull Of The Stars : A Novel

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.
Title: The Pull Of The Stars : A Novel
Barcode: 9780316499033
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/6/2021