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- Told from the first-person point of view of protagonist Julia Power, the story is set at an Ireland hospital during the influenza pandemic of 1918, which was also the last year of World War I. While most of the characters are fictional, Dr. Kathleen Lynn is based on a real doctor who lived and worked in Ireland at the time.
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Jul 21, 2020 · Dublin, 1918, the world is being ravaged by the Spanish flu, influenza. Men are returning from the war, damaged, changed. Julia is an almost thirty, single woman, living with her brother who cannot or will not speak. She is also a nurse, which is one of the only decent employment available to women.
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Jul 20, 2020 · Emma Donoghue Helps Kids Deal With Dementia (And Still Has Fun) In 'The Lotterys'. The main character of The Pull of the Stars is Julia Power, a nurse midwife, about to turn 30, who shares...
The Pull of the Stars is a 2020 novel by Irish novelist Emma Donoghue first published by Little, Brown and by Picador in the UK. [1][2][3] The novel was written in 2018–2019, and published earlier than originally planned because it was set in the 1918 influenza pandemic in Dublin, Ireland.
The Pull of the Stars (New York: Little Brown; Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; London: Picador, 2020). Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love.
Jan 3, 2023 · A Prescient Novel of a WWI-Era Pandemic. “In October 2018, inspired by the centenary of the great flu,” Emma Donoghue tells us in the Author’s Note of her new novel, “I began writing The Pull of the Stars. Just after I delivered my last draft to my publishers, in March 2020, COVID-19 changed everything.”.
May 12, 2020 · Thomas Gebremedhin: “The Blood Tax” is taken from your forthcoming novel, The Pull of the Stars, which is set during the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic. You wrote the novel long before COVID-19...
Is 'The Pull of the Stars' based on a true story? While the characters and events in the novel are fictional, the setting of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is based on historical reality. What genre is 'The Pull of the Stars'?
