The Pull of the Stars

This book might be in my top 10 favourite books!

Fun fact: I am a nurse. That's why reading about what it was like being a nurse in the olden days was so fascinating. A lot of research must have gone into writing this. It must have been so hard being a nurse during a pandemic while in the middle of a war. If you think we are struggling now, how much more back then.

There was a time when mix your own saline solution, whiskey and chloroform were used to treat patients! How medicine has changed!!

This book is so gripping. I couldn't put it down, I wanted to know what will happen to the mothers in the ward. The story is set up in a span of 2 days but you wouldn't think that as there is a lot happening. It was well written, however, Emma Donoghue does not use quotation marks so it's a bit confusing to read at first.