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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel
Emma Donoghue (Author), Emma Lowe (Narrator), HarperCollins Publishers (Publisher) & 0 more★★★★★
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Customers find the book interesting, compelling, and one of the most compelling novels they've read in years. They describe the story as captivating, heart-wrenching, and well-constructed. Readers praise the writing quality as well-done. They find the emotional descriptions poignant, heartfelt, and uplifting. They also appreciate the historical research, character development, and subject matter. Readers describe the book as relevant for us today, holding them throughout, and becoming more beautiful page after page.
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The new number-one best seller from the author of The Wonder and RoomDublin, 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 best-selling 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 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, 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. Read more