![]() Nurse Power is given to opportunity to act as the ward sister as her senior Nurse Finnigan was busy upstairs with other deliveries for the day. The protagonist of the story is Nurse Julia Power along with Bridie Sweeney as the complementary character. The story is set in 1918, Dublin at the time of the Influenza pandemic. It covers about three long, hectic days in the life of Nurse Power with all the haphazard in the hospital and her life. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.” The Pull of the Starsīy Emma Donoghue Book: The Pull of the StarsĮmma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars takes us back to a Maternity/Fever ward in 1918 with Nurse Julia Power and her stimulating story. ![]() 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 the course of three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. ![]() In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. ![]()
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