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  2. The Pull of the Stars is Donoghue’s thirteenth novel (and seventeenth book of fiction). On publication it became a #1 bestseller in Ireland and Canada - staying on Canadian bestseller lists for eight months - and made the New York Times list as well as the Sunday Times list (UK) as well.

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  3. The Pull of the Stars is a 2020 novel by Irish novelist Emma Donoghue first published by Little, Brown and by Picador in the UK. [1][2][3] The novel was written in 20182019, and published earlier than originally planned because it was set in the 1918 influenza pandemic in Dublin, Ireland.

  4. Jul 30, 2020 · Back in October 2018, Donoghue began to think about the centenary of the Great Flu, which prompted her to start writing The Pull of the Stars. Donoghue only finished her manuscript two days before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

  5. Jul 21, 2020 · Emma Donoghue began writing 'The Pull of the Stars' in 2018, inspired by the centenary remembrances for the 1918 pandemic. She never could have predicted how relevant her book would be at its...

  6. Jul 21, 2020 · The novel in question is “ The Pull of the Stars,” set over a few fevered days in a Dublin hospital in 1918. During the centenary of the worst flu pandemic in modern times, Donoghue started...

  7. May 12, 2020 · “The Blood Tax” is taken from Emma Donoghue’s forthcoming novel, The Pull of the Stars (available on July 21).

  8. Jan 3, 2023 · In October 2018, inspired by the centenary of the great flu,” Emma Donoghue tells us in the Author’s Note of her new novel, “I began writing The Pull of the Stars. Just after I delivered my last draft to my publishers, in March 2020, COVID-19 changed everything.”

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