![]() ![]() They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders-Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. ![]() In an Ireland 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 the terrible new flu are quarantined together. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room. It may not be the read for you right now (considering, well, everything) but it should be on your list at some point.ĭublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. It came through just last week and once I started reading, I couldn’t stop. I mean, who chooses to read a novel about a pandemic DURING a pandemic? Uh, me (see my review of Songs for the End of the Worldfrom last summer).Ī friend (I can’t remember who now but thank you!) read this earlier in the summer and I put a library hold on it immediately. I might just be a glutton for punishment with this week’s Summer Reads choice. ![]() This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. ![]()
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