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The Pull of the Stars

A Novel

By Donoghue, Emma

Read by Lowe, Emma

9.06 hrs • 7 CDs • Unabridged

Genre: FICTION  /  GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION  /  HISTORICAL  /  SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY

Release Date: 08/01/2020

© 2020 by Little Brown

ISBN No : 9781549188909

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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.

"Darkly compelling, illuminated by the light of compassion and tenderness: Donoghue's best novel since Room."―Kirkus Reviews

"Donoghue offers vivid characters and a gripping portrait of a world beset by a pandemic and political uncertainty. A fascinating read in these difficult times."―Booklist (starred review)

"Searing . . . Donoghue's evocation of the 1918 flu, and the valor it demands of health-care workers, will stay with readers."―Publishers Weekly

Praise for Akin: A Novel

"Soul stirring."―O Magazine

"We are never too old, Donoghue reminds us, to emerge from our childish dusks. What begins as a larky story of unlikely male bonding turns into an off-center but far richer novel about the unheralded, imperfect heroism of two women -- Michael's incarcerated mother and Noah's long deceased one -- and the way we preserve the past and prepare for the future."―Megan O'Grady, The New York Times Book Review

"Continuously charming."―Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World

"In Donoghue's sure hands, both Noah and his snarky charge are immediately distinctive, their voices clear...It would be a stretch to say these two loners redeem each other, but cast together, they do at least learn to reach out. By their flight back to their new, shared home, they've touched the reader as well."―Boston Globe

"As always, Donoghue's quite poignant on the idea of home -- as both a place and a person. Though Michael and Noah are alien to each other, Noah reflects, they were, 'in an odd way, akin.'"―Seattle Times

"Akin turns unabashedly sentimental, but only a stone wouldn't be moved by its final pages."―Heller McAlpin, Barnes and Noble Review

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