Download The Pull of the Stars PDF
2020
Title | The Pull of the Stars |
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Authors | Emma Donoghue |
Genres | Contemporary Fiction Historical Romance |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
ISBN | 9781529046151 |
Emma Donoghue's The Pull of the Stars, set in a Dublin maternity hospital during the 1918 flu pandemic, shows how little our responses have changed * Guardian, 'Book of the Year' * Emma Donoghue's utterly gripping The Pull of The Stars completed before the pandemic, achieved an eerie relevance with its tale of a Dublin maternity ward at the height of the 1918 Spanish Flu crisis * The Telegraph, 'Book of the Year' * Emma Donoghue has a gift for taking details from the past and creating believable and absorbing worlds around them * The Tablet * A powerful, persistent, highly detailed and incredibly moving book that speaks through time. Donoghue is a marvel of a writer * Press Association * Timely, punchy and gripping * Evening Standard * Emma Donoghue's latest is getting an early release, and it's clear to understand why: In 1918 at the height of the Great Flu in Ireland, sick, pregnant women are quarantined together in a hospital while a group of overworked nurses tries to navigate their patients through the darkness * Marie Claire * Eerily reminiscent of our current global health crisis, The Pull of the Stars brings readers intimately close to a world where health care workers risk it all to keep their patients alive * Time * [Julia and Bridie's] relationship forms the emotional core of a story rich in swift, assured sketches of achingly human characters coping as best they can in extreme circumstances . . . Darkly compelling, illuminated by the light of compassion and tenderness: Donoghue's best novel since Room * Kirkus (starred review) * Donoghue's searing tale . . . Her blunt prose and detailed, painstakingly researched medical descriptions do full justice to the reality of the pandemic and the poverty that helps fuel it. Donoghue's evocation of the 1918 flu, and the valor it demands of health-care workers, will stay with readers * Publishers Weekly *.
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