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Set in Dublin in 1918, this historical fiction follows three women who work and live in a maternity ward during the pandemic. The novel explores themes of motherhood, care, death and love in a time of crisis.
The Pull of the Stars By Emma Donoghue free pdf download. The Pull of the Stars is a captivating novel set in Dublin, Ireland, during the 1918 influenza pandemic. The narrative revolves around Nurse Julia Power, who is working in a city hospital that is understaffed due to the dual crises of war and disease.
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 21, 2020 · The Pull of the Stars: A Novel. Emma Donoghue. Little, Brown, Jul 21, 2020 - Fiction - 304 pages. In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of...
The Pull of the Stars is a historical novel described by the author as ‘fiction pinned together with fact’. Against the backdrop of the fallout from the First World War, the setting is a cramped, cold, temporary maternity/fever ward in a Dublin hospital in 1919.
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.
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