The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue Wrap carers and mothers alike somehow

carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work

we are left without guidance for one of life's only certainties

With the scale

Thomas is shaken from the drudgery of his days and begins to see a different future

The lines between friend and enemy have blurred

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue Wrap carers and mothers alike somehowPaperback 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 Julias 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 the course of three