![]() ![]() ![]() Taking place almost entirely inside the hospital over three eventful days, the action seems to unfold almost in real time as lives begin and end under the compassionate care of acting ward sister Julia Power. Two years ago, after reading a newspaper article about the centenary of the 1918 flu pandemic, author Emma Donoghue - most widely known for her 2010 bestseller-turned-film Room - began writing a historical novel set during that period.īy the time she delivered the final draft of the book in March of this year, however, its world of face masks, overloaded hospitals and shuttered businesses had taken on a new and unexpected resonance in the time of COVID-19.ĭonoghue’s publisher thus fast-tracked the book to publication (it was originally due out in 2021), and the result is The Pull of the Stars, set in Dublin near the end of World War I in a busy makeshift ward for pregnant patients who have contracted the potentially deadly strain of flu. ![]()
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