“Impeccably researched and immensely readable, as always with Donoghue. “Donoghue, a first-rate historical novelist, skillfully weaves the era’s primitive medical understanding and social prejudices into her moving story of three caregivers with little but loving care to give.” - Maclean's “Searing… Donoghue’s evocation of the 1918 flu, and the valor it demands of health-care workers, will stay with readers.” - Publishers Weekly “Darkly compelling, illuminated by the light of compassion and tenderness: Donoghue’s best novel since Room.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A fascinating read in these difficult times." - Booklist (starred review) "Donoghue. offers vivid characters and a gripping portrait of a world beset by a pandemic and political uncertainty. 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. With tireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers 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 the terrible new flu are quarantined together. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room.
THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOMĭublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. Globe & Mail 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020
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