Lorenzo Virtual Book Club featuring Emma Donoghue-SJ

Event Details:

The next Lorenzo Virtual Book Club meeting will feature award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter Emma Donoghue discussing her novel, The Pull of the Stars.

The Pull of the Stars became a #1 bestseller in Canada and Ireland and made bestseller lists in the US (New York Times) and UK as well. Set in Dublin during the Great Flu pandemic in 1918, it is about a nurse midwife, a doctor and a volunteer helper living through three days in a maternity quarantine ward.

The novel was the Barnes & Noble Book Club choice for August 2020, a Reader's Digest Book Club Pick and an Australian Women's Weekly Book Club Pick as well as an Oprah Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 and a Chapters Indigo Best Book of 2020. The unabridged audiobook read by Emma Lowe won an AudioFile Earphones award.  Donoghue’s novel Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes and sold over two million copies. It was adapted into a feature film.

SPOILER ALERT:  The discussion assumes that every participant has read the book.  If you have not read it, or have not finished it, please be prepared to hear plot twists and perhaps the ending.  

The Lorenzo Reading Series acknowledges the support of Canada Council for the Arts, the League of Canadian Poets, UNB Saint John, and its private reading sponsors.  

Building: Virtual