The Pull of the Stars

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Call Number: Large Print Fiction / Donoghue, Emma, Adult Book / Large Print / Fiction / Historical / Donoghue, Emma
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown Large Print 4-week checkout	Large Print Fiction / Donoghue, Emma	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Large Print / Fiction / Historical / Donoghue, Emma	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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 fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled in life, she makes up a bed with only the rubber mat and savors the weak tea and barely edible porridge from the hospital kitchen. But in the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.

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