In the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the hypercaffeinated pull masks to chins for takeaway lattes. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. During the 1918 influenza pandemic, dissenters cut holes in masks to puff on cigars. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders - Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways.

In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope andīooks Excerpt : In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in 'Donoghue's best novel since Room' (Kirkus Reviews)In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. Books Excerpt : In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in 'Donoghue's best novel since Room' (Kirkus Reviews)In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together.

A pull of the stars