The pull of the stars
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-2021
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In an Ireland 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. 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.
Main title:
The pull of the stars / Emma Donoghue.
Author:
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2021.
Collation:
294 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
ISBN:
9781529046199 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTIONF
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
3085620