The Pull of the Stars: A Novel - Hardcover

Donoghue, Emma

 
9781443461788: The Pull of the Stars: A Novel

Synopsis

THE
NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM
 


Dublin,
1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small
world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author
of The Wonder and 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 the terrible new 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, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do their
impossible work. 


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. 

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About the Author

Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Room sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue co-wrote the 2022 screen adaptation for Netflix. The Pull of the Stars was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Haven was shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. Donoghue’s fiction ranges from the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects, Akin) to the historical (Learned by Heart, SlammerkinThe Sealed Letter, AstrayFrog Music) and includes two books for young readers, The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More or Less.

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