"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. 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 the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work."--
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ISBN:1443461806
ISBN:9781443461801
Physical Description:v, 295 pages ; 23 cm. print
Edition:Harper Perennial trade paperback edition.
Publisher:Toronto, Ontario : Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
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