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The pull of the stars : a novel / Emma Donoghue.

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"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 fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, [Bridie], Julia and the [other] women come together in unexpected ways."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316499019
  • ISBN: 0316499013
  • ISBN: 9780316593137
  • Physical Description: 295 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Nurses > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
Pregnant women > Fiction.
Medical personnel > Fiction.
Hospitals > Maternity services > Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 > Ireland > Dublin > Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Novels.

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  • 86 of 89 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Toe River Valley Regional Library .

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