![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nurse Power is a well-trained nurse she has three diplomas-one from a technical school, one from the hospital and one in her area of specialty, midwifery. Nurse Julia Power is left in charge of the maternity ward with three patients who have the flu when her supervisor, Matron, falls ill with the flu. Before you decide that you are totally uninterested in this type of novel, let me assure you that the novel will surprise you as it slowly pulls you into the world of the Spanish flu and early maternity ward nurses who were trying to care for their patients using the latest techniques of the day. Medieval Italians believed that our illnesses were governed by the heavens. The pull of the stars refers to the Italian phrase “influenza delle stelle,” the influence of the stars. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue is a novel about three horrendous days in the life of a maternity ward nurse in Dublin during the flu pandemic of 1918. ![]()
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