During the centenary of the worst flu pandemic in modern times, Donoghue started. At first I wondered if it more What is the meaning of the chapter titles I’d like to read the interpretation of some readers and possibly of the author. The novel in question is The Pull of the Stars, set over a few fevered days in a Dublin hospital in 1918. 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. Meredith Whitford A very short romantic/loving interlude (no sex, just kissing and fondness) between two women, right at the end of the book. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. 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 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. 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).
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