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The pull of the stars /

Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

The pull of the stars / Emma Donoghue. - 294 pages ; 22 cm

Dublin, 1918. In a country 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. Into Julia's stressful 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 the course of 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, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.-Book cover.

9781529046151 9781529046168

GBC056885 bnb

019790049 Uk


Hospitals--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
Nurses--Ireland--Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919--Ireland--Fiction.


Dublin (Ireland)--History--20th century--Fiction.

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