They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. 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 a country 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. The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born.ĭublin, 1918. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times best seller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room. Three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu.
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