The Pull of the Stars
23 July 2020Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room.
'An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel' – The Times
The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . .
Dublin, 1918. In...
Details
23 July 2020545 minutes
Emma Lowe
9781529046182Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A visceral, harrowing, and revelatory vision of life, death, and love in a time of pandemic. This novel is stunningEmily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
The Pull of the Stars has a fever dream-like quality . . . as a tender record of humans coping as best they can with a pandemic, it’s about as moving and absorbing as it getsEvening Standard
A timely, exquisite and unputdownable reminder of love and compassion in the smallest room where women are giving birth and other women are dying and yet love - in all its joy and complexity - still finds a placeRachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Extraordinarily prescient . . . With The Pull of the Stars, [Donoghue] again conjures up a setting that is at once claustrophobic in feel yet epic in sweep Daily Telegraph
