![]() ‘The Pull of the Stars’ is gritty and tender all at once. Together, they see life and death, and over the span of three days, Nurse Power’s life changes in a magnitude that she hadn’t dreamt of before. Enter Bridie Sweeney, who is here as a runner, helping Nurse Power with odd jobs and dashing around when the Nurse can. Here, we see Nature at work, Nurse Power doing all she can to keep these women alive. On the day this novel opens, Nurse Power finds herself in charge of the Maternity/Fever ward and she has to take care of the pregnant women coming in and going out of here. Nurse Power has a brother, Tim, who returned from the war mute, and she suspects that this is a psychological trauma that has turned her brother so. People covering their faces in handkerchiefs and sitting apart and hanging out of tram doors and all that. ![]() ![]() She cycles to a point from where she takes the tram to work and it is in these few sentences that you find yourself imagining how things could have been at the time. Nurse Julia Power works in a Dublin Maternity Ward. ![]()
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