The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue
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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow.
This is a beautiful and heartbreaking story of the influenza epidemic 0f 1918 in Ireland. At the same time, World War I is being fought in Europe. It is told from the POV of a nurse on the frontlines. Julia Power works "at an understaffed hospital in the city center of [Dublin], where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flue are quarantined together" (back cover). There are no vaccines. Julia's world is one of death, and rules, and struggle.
Into her world, come two other women who change everything for her: "Kathleen Lynn, a doctor rumored to be a Rebel on the run from the police, and Bride Sweeney, a young volunteer helper" (back cover).
The narrative covers three days, days of loss, change, and birth, and love.
Highly recommended.
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The Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow.
This is a beautiful and heartbreaking story of the influenza epidemic 0f 1918 in Ireland. At the same time, World War I is being fought in Europe. It is told from the POV of a nurse on the frontlines. Julia Power works "at an understaffed hospital in the city center of [Dublin], where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flue are quarantined together" (back cover). There are no vaccines. Julia's world is one of death, and rules, and struggle.
Into her world, come two other women who change everything for her: "Kathleen Lynn, a doctor rumored to be a Rebel on the run from the police, and Bride Sweeney, a young volunteer helper" (back cover).
The narrative covers three days, days of loss, change, and birth, and love.
Highly recommended.
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