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  1. Overview. The Pull of the Stars, published in 2020, is a work of historical fiction by Emma Donoghue, an Irish Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. The novel was longlisted for the Giller Prize. Told from the first-person point of view of protagonist Julia Power, the story is set at an Ireland hospital during the ...

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  2. 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 ...

  3. Jul 21, 2020 · All the stars! I finished The Pull of the Stars over last weekend, a buddy read with my dear friend, @bibliobeth. We gobbled this book up. At 304 pages, and taking place over only 3 days, this book is something, and I mean something remarkable. The Pull of the Stars makes my second book I’ve read about the 1918 influenza pandemic in the last ...

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  4. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue CITY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB READING GUIDE About the book 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, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room.

  5. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Donoghue, Emma. The Pull of the Stars. Harper Avenue, 2020. Donoghue divides the novel into four sections: Red, Brown, Blue, and Black which depict three days in the life of narrator, Julia Power. In “Red,” midwife Julia goes to work at a Dublin hospital on October 31st 1918.

  6. The Pull of the Stars Emma Donoghue Picador, 2020 ISBN:978-1-5290-4615-1 £12.00 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.

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  8. Jul 20, 2020 · 'The Pull Of The Stars' Review: Emma Donoghue's Disquieting Pandemic Novel Set in a Dublin maternity ward in 1918, the novel captures a city devastated by a pandemic. By diving into the terrors of ...

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