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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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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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Jan 3, 2023 · The great triumph of The Pull of the Stars is Donoghue’s careful description of the minute-to-minute life of a nurse fighting to save the lives of her patients. It’s gruesome going at times, but the action is never less than gripping. Moreover, despite the fact that book was composed before our own version of the plague, The Pull of the ...
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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The book is set in Dublin, in the early 20th century, where the first world war is coming to an end but an influenza outbreak is causing havoc. The story follows Nurse Julia Power in 1918 as she works at an understaffed hospital in Dublin’s city centre. It is her responsibility to care for the expectant mothers who have come down with the flu as th...
I loved this book. Emma Donoghue has a real talent for entwining harrowing and devastating details with hope and tenderness. It’s so beautifully written and I loved how it was poetic in places yet completely blunt in others as the author detailed the gruesome details of obstetric complications. There are no speech marks throughout but I didn’t find...
I would definitely recommend reading Roomby Emma Donoghue as I found that to be another impactful read. If you’re interested in reading another book about brave nurses, I’d highly recommend reading The Women by Kristin Hannah.
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 ...
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And while it didn’t ruin the book for me, were I giving it a star rating, it would lose at least 1/2 a notch for what I consider to be political pandering. Would love to know your thoughts! When Emma Donoghue began work on The Pull of the Stars in 2018, she had no idea how eerily similar the world would be to her setting a hundred years prior.
