The pull of the stars review5/31/2023 Situated in Dublin in the depths of the Great War in 1918, Emma Donoghue presents a picture of a country in turmoil. It is a unique story that lingers long after the final page has been turned. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue is a story of strength, private wars, public battles, resilience, survival, torment, loss, life and death. We had it no worse here than anywhere else self-pity was as useless as panic.’ Across the globe, in hundreds of languages, signs were going up urging people to cover their coughs. As far as I could tell, the whole world was a machine grinding to a halt. ‘Not just the hospital, I reminded myself- the whole of Dublin. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. From the international bestselling author of Room.
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