THENEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM Dublin,1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A smallworld of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling authorof The Wonder and Room. Inan Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at anunderstaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have comedown with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’sregimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from thepolice, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. Inthe darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these womenchange each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to thisbaffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. Withtireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do theirimpossible work. In ThePull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darknessin this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.
