The Pull of the Stars: Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue (Room) started writing this in 2018, long before anyone had heard of Covid-19 – but the parallels are striking. Set over three days in a Dublin hospital in the middle of the Spanish Flu, Nurse Julia Powers does her best in a chronically understaffed quarantined maternity ward – when two women enter the ward and her life and change it forever. Bridie is a young volunteer helper, and Kathleen Lynn is a doctor, and a member of Sinn Fein. As with Room, the space they inhabit is tiny, but encompasses the world.

Details

• Format: Paperback / softback
• Publication Date: 18/08/2020
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Country of Origin: United Kingdom
• Pages: 256