
The Pull of the Stars
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Emma Lowe
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By:
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Emma Donoghue
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 rumored 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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The narrator is average and at 1.5x speed kept my attention throughout. I really enjoy audiobooks where the female voice actors have an accent. Irish sounds so whimsical to me. That fit wonderfully with this story.
At times I was outraged (and yelled aloud more than once) by the complete hypocrisy and injustice of it all. Other times, my heart was buoyed by the human spirit of kindness and giving. And then...I was crying at the heart break and loss that seemed never-ending.
I think the story is great. It's a quick read and leaves you thinking long after you've finished. Much of the book examines duty - duty to others, duty to society (in this case King and country) and the duty of the masses to ensure the care and safety of the invisible. As a pediatric mental health provider, I have several clients at any given time that are living as wards of the state. Either in a group placement or a foster home. Sadly, their stories are not much different than those in this book (minus the bit about going to work). The drawback of this story I guess, is that it's not that happy. It's not one with a happy ending and it just reminds me that 100 years doesn't mean much.
Not the story I expected, but the story I needed.
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Disappointed
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Heartbreakingly Relevant
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Great Story
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The tory is good, but the editing style is off.
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Timely story!
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So relevant and compelling! Narrator was exceptional
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Harrowing, graphic, depressing - but timely
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Wonderful and moving story
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Best Book
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