The Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A wonderful pandemic read. Can there really be such a thing? Things are bad for us, but image living through something like this 100 years ago!
Set in Ireland during the Spanish flu, this book takes place in a hospital's laying in/fever ward - maternity/flu ward. The caregivers and patients are the main focus. As we see the women being tended to, the author broaches important social issues of the time - shell shock, "the troubles" in Northern Ireland, poverty, the Catholic Church.
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