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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 2018–2019, and published earlier than originally planned because it was set in the 1918 influenza pandemic in Dublin, Ireland.
Donoghue's theatrical adaptation of The Pull of the Stars premiered at Dublin's Gate Theatre in April-May 2024. A personal note: I began this novel in October 2018, inspired by the centenary of the Great Flu of 1918-19, and I delivered the final draft to my publishers in March 2020, two days before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.
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.
Jul 21, 2020 · In the Author's note, Emma Donoghue shares how she began writing this book after being inspired by the centenary of the great flu, and by the time she had delivered her last draft to publishers in March 2020, COVID 19 came on the scene.
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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...
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. Emma Donoghue spoke with Dr. Brian ...
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...
