EMMA DONOGHUE’S much-trumpeted new novel takes place over three days at an understaffed Dublin hospital during the 1918 flu pandemic. At the same time, the city is struggling to cope with returning casualties from the First World War and the everyday ravages of poverty and deprivation. The reader has some ravages to contend with too…. Read more »
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