The pull of the stars: a novel
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A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
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 fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.
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Donoghue, E. (2020). The pull of the stars: a novel. Large print edition ; first edition. Little, Brown, and Company, Hachette Book Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Donoghue, Emma, 1969-. 2020. The Pull of the Stars: A Novel. Little, Brown, and Company, Hachette Book Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Donoghue, Emma, 1969-, The Pull of the Stars: A Novel. Little, Brown, and Company, Hachette Book Group, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Donoghue, Emma. The Pull of the Stars: A Novel. Large print edition ; first edition. Little, Brown, and Company, Hachette Book Group, 2020.
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