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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 by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM.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 aDublin 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 by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM.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 Julias regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn 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 others 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.(less)