![]() ![]() Over a period of three days, Julia must attempt to save the lives of these women and their babies, even as the flu threatens to take them from her. Julia works in an understaffed and over-full hospital in Dublin in a cramped Maternity-Fever ward full of ill expectant mothers who must be quarantined together. Already torn apart by war and struggling to fight this new and deadly disease, the novel is told from the perspective of Nurse Julia Power. Shockingly serendipitous, The Pull of the Stars is set in Ireland during the 1918 flu pandemic. ![]() ![]() It drew me into its world in a way that was so riveting and unexpected. A fast-paced, stunning novel, I was unable to put down The Pull of the Stars until the early hours of the morning. Emma Donoghue’s newest novel, The Pull of the Stars(Harper Avenue 2020), is perhaps one of her most compelling historical fictions to date. ![]()
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