![]() With tireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. 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 center, 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. THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOMĭublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. ![]()
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