In an overcrowded, under-resourced and understaffed Dublin hospital, Julia finds herself in charge of a makeshift ward for pregnant mothers with symptoms of influenza.Īt just under 300 pages, The Pull of the Stars is a short, well paced novel. It is October of 1918, The Great War is still a month away from its end, and a deadly strain of Influenza is spreading rapidly through the world’s population. Set in Ireland, The Pull of the Stars is told from the first-person perspective of Julia Power, a thirty year old maternity nurse. When Emma Donoghue wrote The Pull of the Stars, inspired by the centenary of the influenza pandemic (also known as the Spanish Flu) of 1918 which was responsible for the deaths of up to 50million people worldwide, she had no idea that the book’s release in 2020 would coincide with another deadly global pandemic, COVID-19. Influenza delle stelle-the influence of the stars.“ Status: Read July 2020 courtesy PanMacmillan Australia/Netgalley We have some customers delighted to taste our pizzas, perhaps not always very beautiful. ) it is unsettling to eat fresh products !! , even pizza dough already decorated with tomato sauce 😱), if it sells it is because it can be bought !! ! Who buys these kinds of products ? I do not know.!! Not us in any case !!! When we only know industrial products (even those served and sold in restaurants. They sell products for pizza already ready in cellophane (mozzarella, cut ham, mushrooms. the fresh mozzarella makes water and not the mozzarella wrapped in cellophane.

because you have the right to speak and we have the right to reply! Same answer you are right. Competing pizzerias do much better nearby. The pizzas are full of water and the filling comes off the dough.īut do not worry, we will tell you that you are not used to eating fresh products and that it is not comparable to pizzas in the supermarket.

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