Emma Donoghue: A Novel About the Great Flu




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Summary: When bestselling author Emma Donoghue set out to write a book about the greatest pandemic the world had seen, little did she know that her story would be published during a new, unprecedented pandemic. "The Pull of the Stars" is set in a Dublin maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu in 1918. Donoghue discusses her new novel with Nam Kiwanuka.