The pull of the stars : a novel
Donoghue, Emma (, 1969-)
The pull of the stars : a novel / Emma Donoghue - New York : Back Bay Books , 2021, c2020 - 295 p. ; 21 cm
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.
English
9780316499033
Nurses---Fiction
Orphans ----Fiction
Pregnant women----Fiction
Medical personnel---Fiction
Hospitals---Maternity services---Fiction
Influenza Epidemic---Fiction---Ireland---Dublin---1918-1919
World War, 1914-1918
Dublin (Ireland)----Fiction
Historical fiction
FIC DON
The pull of the stars : a novel / Emma Donoghue - New York : Back Bay Books , 2021, c2020 - 295 p. ; 21 cm
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.
English
9780316499033
Nurses---Fiction
Orphans ----Fiction
Pregnant women----Fiction
Medical personnel---Fiction
Hospitals---Maternity services---Fiction
Influenza Epidemic---Fiction---Ireland---Dublin---1918-1919
World War, 1914-1918
Dublin (Ireland)----Fiction
Historical fiction
FIC DON
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