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Jul 21, 2020 · March 23, 2021. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (author), Emma Lowe (narrator) It's 1918 Dublin, the city and the country ravaged by war, poverty, and the Great Flu. Very few people aren't suffering from the flu or the after effects of the flu and Nurse Julia Power's inner city hospital is running on a skeleton crew, with not enough ...
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Jun 15, 2021 · The Pull of the Stars is a page turner, a non-stop story that happens mostly during one long shift in the hospital during which Powers, sometimes aided by Doctor Lynn and/or Bridie, go from crisis to crisis to crisis. The timing of the writing of this book may have been a bit unfortunate though it was written before the current pandemic.
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The Pull of the Stars was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, a Barnes & Noble Book Club choice, a Reader's Digest Book Club Pick and an Australian Women's Weekly Book Club Pick as well as an Oprah Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 and a Guardian, Telegraph, NPR, CBC, Globe and Mail, Cosmopolitan and Chapters Indigo Best Book of 2020. The unabridged audiobook read by Emma Lowe won an AudioFile ...
Feb 4, 2021 · Photo Credit: Una Roulston Review by A.N. Higgins. Emma Donoghue is the author of eleven novels for adults––including Room, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize––two novels for children, and five short story collections, as well as various plays, screenplays, and works of nonfiction.
Mar 19, 2021 · Suffice to say, for a book about a kidnapped young woman being held against her will while raising her son, the narrative addresses the obvious emotional struggles and some not so obvious. The sense of tension in this novel is masterful. It waxes and wanes, ebbs and flows, but it’s always present in every scene.
Apr 29, 2021 · Donoghue is a marvel of a writer ― Press Association Emma Donoghue has a gift for taking details from the past and creating believable and absorbing worlds around them ― The Tablet Gripping . . . fans of Call The Midwife will relish the true-to-life accounts of labour ― S Magazine Although compassion, female solidarity and dedicated service are at the novel’s core, suffering and ...
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Jul 6, 2021 · Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Room sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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