Emma Donoghue

The Pull of the Stars

Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 294 Seiten

ISBN 152904619X

EAN 9781529046199

Veröffentlicht April 2021

Verlag/Hersteller Pan Macmillan

€ 11,50 inkl. MwSt.

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Beschreibung

An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel' The Times
The Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room
The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . .
Dublin, 1918. 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. 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 the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of 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 tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss.
Guardian's 'Brilliant Books to Transport You This Summer'
Cosmopolitan's 'Best Books to Read This Summer'
Stylist's 'Best Summer Reads'

Portrait

Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical including The Pull of the Stars), as well as drama for screen and stage. Room, was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her novel The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh and distributed by Netflix.