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Title Statement | The pull of the stars: a novel / [book club set] / Emma Donoghue. |
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Author | Donoghue, Emma, 1969- |
Publication | Toronto: Harper Perennial,2021. |
Edition | Harper Perannial trade paperback edition. |
Extent of Item | v, 295 pages |
ISBN | 9781443461801 1443461806 |
Other Number | (OCoLC)1242046392 |
General Notes | Previously published: Toronto: Harper Avenue, 2020. |
Summary | "Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room. 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 the terrible new flu are quarantined together. 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 the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919--Fiction--Ireland--Dublin |
Nurses--Fiction | |
Orphans--Fiction | |
Pregnant women--Fiction | |
Hospitals--Fiction--Maternity services | |
By Location | Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction |