The Pull of the Stars

Release on 2020-07-21 | by Emma Donoghue

With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.

Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9780316499040
Category: Fiction
Page: 304
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The Pull of the Stars

In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews) 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 come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police , and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, 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. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.

Language: en
Pages: 304

The Pull of the Stars

Authors: Emma Donoghue

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-21 - Publisher: Hachette UK

Language: en
Pages: 224

The Pull of the Moon

Authors: Elizabeth Berg

Categories: Women

Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Random House

"Dear Martin I'm sorry the note I left you was so abrupt. I just wanted you to know I was safe...I won't be backc for a while. I'm on a trip. I needed all of a suddden to go, without saying where, because I don't know where. I know this

Language: en
Pages: 168

The Pull of the Earth

Authors: Laurie Thorp

Categories: Education

Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-22 - Publisher: Rowman Altamira

The Pull of the Earth is Laurie Thorp's dirt-under-the-fingernails ethnography of four years in an elementary school garden and the ways in which this garden catalyzed cultural transformation and inspired hope, growth, and community. Filled with photographs, sketches, poetry, and journal entries, Thorp's engaging book describes the educational benefits of