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Starta erbjudandetThree days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room.
'An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel' – The Times
The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . .
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 Julia's 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 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 tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.
Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards -- Eason Novel of the Year The Telegraph's 'Best Novels of 2020' Guardian's 'Brilliant Books to Transport You This summer', 'Best Books of 2020' Cosmopolitan's 'Best Books to Read this summer' Stylist's 'Best summer Reads
© 2020 Picador (Ljudbok): 9781529046182
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 23 juli 2020
Three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room.
'An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel' – The Times
The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . .
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 Julia's 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 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 tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.
Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards -- Eason Novel of the Year The Telegraph's 'Best Novels of 2020' Guardian's 'Brilliant Books to Transport You This summer', 'Best Books of 2020' Cosmopolitan's 'Best Books to Read this summer' Stylist's 'Best summer Reads
© 2020 Picador (Ljudbok): 9781529046182
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 23 juli 2020
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Lena
19 nov. 2022
This book gives you a glimpse into what it was like living as a woman in Ireland in the beginning of the 1900’s. All the while the Spanish flu and the First World War was raging. Ireland was part of Great Britain and Irish men were forced into the British army and those who came home were never the same. Our main character is a nurse working in the maternity/fever ward where pregnant women with the flu and many of them for the sixth or 12th time (due to contraception being forbidden). Reading this book make me greatful to live now with all the technological and medical advancement that has developed since.
Anna
14 mars 2021
Läsvärd från första till sista sidan. Kvinnor som älskar, kämpar, föder och dör skildras trovärdigt. Pandemi 1918 och pandemi 2021, 100 år har passerat och vissa saker består, som människans vägar till ett värdigt liv i det obegripliga. Tack till alla kvinnor som gått före!
Jennifer
13 aug. 2021
En underbar glimts in i hur det var att föda barn under både krigstid och pandemi för 100 år sen!
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