![]() ![]() It is October of 1918, The Great War is still a month away from its end, and a deadly strain of Influenza is spreading rapidly through the world’s population. Set in Ireland, The Pull of the Stars is told from the first-person perspective of Julia Power, a thirty year old maternity nurse. When Emma Donoghue wrote The Pull of the Stars, inspired by the centenary of the influenza pandemic (also known as the Spanish Flu) of 1918 which was responsible for the deaths of up to 50million people worldwide, she had no idea that the book’s release in 2020 would coincide with another deadly global pandemic, COVID-19. Influenza delle stelle-the influence of the stars.“ ![]() ![]() Status: Read July 2020 courtesy PanMacmillan Australia/Netgalley ![]()
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