Book guide
The Pull of the Stars
Three desperate days in a Dublin maternity ward become a story of courage, grief, and unexpected love.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
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About The Pull of the Stars
Set during the 1918 influenza pandemic, the novel follows Nurse Julia Power as she cares for pregnant women quarantined in an understaffed Dublin hospital. With help from a young volunteer and a doctor wanted by the authorities, Julia faces birth, death, and human connection under extraordinary pressure.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Fast
Content warnings
- abusive relationship
- alcohol
- blood
- child abuse
- child death
- childbirth
- death
- emesis
- gore
- hospitalisation
- miscarriage
- physical abuse
- pregnancy
- ptsd
- incest
- medical trauma
