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Author Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author.

Title The pull of the stars : a novel / Emma Donoghue.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2017958~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F DONOGHUE    AVAILABLE
 95th Street Adult Fiction  F DONOGHUE    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F DONOGHUE    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F DONOGHUE    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F DONOGHUE    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F DONOGHUE    DUE 05-19-24
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Description 295 pages ; 25 cm
Summary 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 "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews) 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.
Subject Medical personnel -- Fiction.
Hospitals -- Maternity services -- Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780316499019
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