Donoghue’s novel is told from the perspective of a nurse in a Dublin hospital as she struggles to help the women in her understaffed, undersupplied maternity/fever ward
The author of multiple novels, including 'Room' and 'Akin', Emma Donoghue spoke from her home in London, Ont.Set during the 1918 pandemic, as the Great War still rages in Europe, Emma Donoghue’s novelis told from the perspective of a nurse in a Dublin hospital, Julia Power, struggling to help the women in her understaffed, undersupplied maternity/fever ward. The author of multiple novels, includingYou finished this book just before the current pandemic hit.
I don’t think the pandemic was any worse in Ireland – in fact many parts of Asia and Africa had much higher death rates. What drew me to my homeland as a setting was that there was so much else going on, politically.
During the flu pandemic, she ran a free clinic and tried giving patients the vaccines that were available, which, though we now know couldn’t do anything for the virus itself, may have offered some protection against secondary infections.
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