The Pull of the Stars Format_Journal Martin Zwilling

Martin Zwilling

You'll have more passion

her plans go awry

flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother - and then vanishes

overcrowded hive of faded Portuguese culture

The Pull of the Stars Format_Journal Martin ZwillingIn 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