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“I like Emma Donoghue’s novels a lot. This one is a bit different…It’s set around a Dublin maternity ward over just a few days in 1918. Three women from very different classes have to come together to help patients who are having babies at a time when the flu is going on around them… It just resonated with me. It was 100 years ago, but there’s a lot that was very similar. It’s unfortunately staying very relevant. And Emma Lowe is brilliant in her narration.” Read more...
Robin Whitten, Journalist