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, 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. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM. You can read this before The Pull of the Stars PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.ĭublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The author uses the colours as subtitles to mark the few days of her story. Its clinical stages are marked by colour changes red, brown, blue, black. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Pull of the Stars written by Emma Donoghue which was published in. The title pull (or influence) of the stars is a reference to the origin of the word influenza from an epidemic in fifteenth-century Italy. Brief Summary of Book: The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
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