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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

20th Century, Best Seller, Dystopian, Emma Donoghue, Fiction, Historical, Medical, Pan Macmillan, World War I, Historical fiction, LGBTQ From the international bestselling author of Room.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. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.
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20th Century, Best Seller, Dystopian, Emma Donoghue, Fiction, Historical, Medical, Pan Macmillan, World War I , Historical fiction, LGBTQ

Condition

Gently Used
Pages

256
Language

EN
Publication Date

2020


ISBN

9781529046168
Binding

Paperback
Publisher

Pan Macmillan
Edition

5