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 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 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 the terrible new flu are quarantined. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love. The Pull of the Stars (New York: Little Brown Toronto: HarperCollins Canada London: Picador, 2020).ĭublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu.
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