The Pull of the Stars: A Novel

Written by:
Emma Donoghue
Narrated by:
Emma Lowe

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
30
Narrator
9
Release Date
July 2020
Duration
9 hours 6 minutes
Summary
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews).

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 Julia's regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel 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 other's 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.
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Nichole Murphy

So interesting to be listening to this as COVID broke out. A good story and a great listen.

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Nancy G.

Very boring and repetitive. Could not finish

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Anonymous

Loved this story.

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Cyn K.

What really made this book a success for me was the skill and diversity of the narrator's voice. She inhabited each character she portrayed, including the narrator.

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