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The Pull of the Stars
A Historical Fiction Novel by Emma Donoghue
Subgenres:
- Pandemic,
- Women's Lives,
- 1918 Dublin
This book is for you if you're into...
- Intense hospital dramas set during a deadly pandemic
- Women forging bonds while battling impossible odds
- Historical snapshots of medicine and motherhood in 1918 Dublin
From Little Stack
Emma O’Donoghue has become one of my go-to writers of historical fiction. My favourite of her books so far is this beautiful yet harrowing tale.
Set in Dublin in 1918, a time when Ireland was ravaged by war and in the grip of a pandemic. Nurse Julia Power is caring for expectant mothers who have contracted the flu with just an inexperienced volunteer and a doctor who is on the run from the police to help her. Over the course of three days we watch these women battle to give patients the best care they can in the face of overwhelming adversity.
O’Donoghue explores their fight to survive and a number of other important topics in this book, giving us a fascinating and detailed glimpse into women’s life and the state of medicine in 1918.
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, 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, a rumoured Rebel 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, carers 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.
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