In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.
There is tenderness and even beauty amid the horror, as nurses manoeuvre the expectant. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. The first part of the story takes place over 14 hours as women weakened by flu contort themselves in labour. 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 the course of 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 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. The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born.ĭublin, 1918.
It is 1918, and the Spanish flu has whole populations in its grip populations already enfeebled by slaughter, shell shock and war weariness. Emma Donoghue Buy The Pull of the Stars is a drama of drudgery, solicitude, alarms and obstetrics. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times best seller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room. In this review THE PULL OF THE STARS 262pp. Three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu.
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