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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.
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.
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. : 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 work, risk,...
The Pull of the Stars. By. Emma Donoghue. Pan MacMillan. f 'An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel' The Times. The Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The. Wonder and Room. The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . . Dublin, 1918.
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Jul 6, 2020 · The Pull of the Stars tells the story of three women — a nurse, a doctor and an activist — in war-ravaged Ireland during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
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Jul 28, 2020 · The Pull of the Stars. From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city...
