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The pull of the stars : a novel / Emma Donoghue.

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- (author.). Lowe, Emma, (narrator.). Playaway Digital Audio. (Added Author). Findaway World, LLC. (Added Author).

Summary:

Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781549161063
ISBN: 1549161067
Physical Description: 1 audio media player (9 hrs.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from Playaway label. "HD." "LIGHT." Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Emma Lowe.