# The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (Paperback)

**The _Sunday Times_ bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of _Room. The Pull of the Stars_ is set during three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu.**  
  
**'Moving, gripping and dazzlingly written' - _Stylist_**  
  
Dublin, 1918. 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. 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 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.  
  
**In _The Pull of the Stars_, Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.  
  
'A visceral, harrowing, and revelatory vision of life, death, and love in a time of pandemic. This novel is stunning' - Emily St. John Mandel, author of _Station Eleven_  
  
'Reads like an episode of _Call The Midwife_ set during a pandemic' - _Mail on Sunday_**  
  
**_Guardian_,** **_Cosmopolitan_ and _Telegraph_'s 'Books of the Year'**

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Pan Macmillan
- **Tags:** All Books, Historical Fiction, Romance

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