THE
NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM
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.
