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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 ...

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Julia tells us that the word influenza means “the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed” (147). a. Are mortals like Julia defenseless against the push and pull of fate, of a force as powerful as the influenza?

  6. Jan 21, 2021 · The Pull of the Stars, which takes its title from the Italian origin of the word influenza, unfolds over the course of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day—with a chatty ...

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  8. O F T H E. STARS. A novel by. EMMA DONOGHUE. AN INTERVIEW WITH. EMMA DONOGHUE. Emma Donoghue and Thomas Gebremedhin, a senior editor at The Atlantic, discussed the novel ahead of its publication. Thomas Gebremedhin: “The Blood Tax” is taken from your forthcoming novel, The Pull of the Stars, which is set during the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic.