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The Pull of the Stars
by Emma Donoghue
🏰Historical fiction~304 pages
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Dublin, 1918: as the influenza pandemic overwhelms the city, nurse Julia Power works in a cramped maternity ward reserved for pregnant women with the disease. Over three intense days, she is joined by a young volunteer and a mysterious patient whose arrival changes the ward’s fragile balance. Donoghue creates a contained, human-scale drama from exhaustion, fear, tenderness, and moral courage. The novel is emotionally direct without becoming sentimental, with a single central viewpoint and natural stopping points that suit gradual bedtime reading while still offering an immediate, compelling opening.
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