![]() ![]() Imagine having the foresight to write a novel about the Spanish Flu that came out in the summer of 2020. It is my first library book since shutdown! A few weeks ago, the Brooklyn Public Library system reopened some branches for returns and hold pickup, and I have waited eagerly for my books to come in. Review: This book is notable for a couple of different reasons. ![]() 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.-Little Brown 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 three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. 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. Synopsis: 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. ![]()
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