The disease makes labor and delivery even more high risk than normal. Julia Power works in Maternity/Fever, a supply room converted to handle pregnant women infected with the flu.
These details provide a thrumming background noise to the central drama of women’s lives brought into hard focus by pregnancy and birth. A nurse in a Dublin hospital battles the ordinary hazards of childbirth and the extraordinary dangers of the 1918 flu.ĭonoghue began writing this novel during the 1918 pandemic’s centennial year, before COVID-19 gave it the grim contemporary relevance echoing through her text: signs warning, “ IF IN DOUBT, DON ’ T STIR OUT,” an overwhelmed hospital bedding patients on the floor, stores running out of disinfectant.
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