Donoghues evocation of the 1918 flu, and the valor it demands of health-care workers, will stay with readers.-Publishers Weekly conjures up a claustrophobic space - And into it she brings the world. A fascinating read in these difficult times.-Booklist Searing. Review Quotes Darkly compelling, illuminated by the light of compassion and tenderness: Donoghues best novel since Room.-Kirkus Reviews Donoghue offers vivid characters and a gripping portrait of a world beset by a pandemic and political uncertainty. 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. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. 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 three days, these women change each others lives in unexpected ways. Into Julias 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 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. Book Synopsis 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 Donoghues best novel since Room (Kirkus Reviews). About the Book Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, July 2020.-Title page verso.

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