The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

‘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.