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The?Sunday Times?bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of?Room. The Pull of the Stars?is set during three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu.

‘Moving, gripping and dazzlingly written’ ??Stylist

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.