![]() The contrasting trauma and beauty of what they experience together will teach them as much about themselves as each other their unwavering dedication a testament to the endurance of hope even in the darkest of times.ĭonoghue succeeds in capturing the abject horror of a city blighted by the cumulative effects of war and disease. Throughout the three intense days depicted in the novel, she is aided by Kathleen Lynn, a political radical and pioneering female doctor, and Bridie Sweeney, a novice volunteer with a tragic past and a big heart. With the population already decimated by war, the arrival of a deadly flu pandemic is the last thing the hospital is equipped to deal with, but on a tiny improvised ward for heavily pregnant women who have contracted the virus, Julia continues to serve with compassion. Julia Power is a skilled nurse working in a dangerously understaffed hospital in Ireland's capital. ![]() ![]() ![]() Set during the final months of World War I just as the so-called Spanish Flu was hitting its peak, The Pull of the Stars chronicles three harrowing days in a makeshift maternity ward in Dublin. ![]()
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