She is in labor, but her contractions are still very far apart. Julia sets her to work, noting that she learns fast and has good bedside manner.Ī new patient is brought in, Mary O’Rahilly, who is 17 years old and pregnant for the first time. She is an unexperienced volunteer sent by Sister Luke to aid Julia, since she is alone. She checks on Ita Noonan and Delia Garrett, the two others.Ī young woman named Bridie Sweeney enters the ward. Julia sees that one patient, Eileen Devine, has died overnight. She switches off the overnight nurse, who tells her she will by herself leading the ward today, as her supervisor is needed elsewhere. She works in the small, makeshift Fever/Maternity ward for pregnant women with grippe. The city is ravaged by the war and the Spanish flu, referred to as grippe. In “Red,” midwife Julia goes to work at a Dublin hospital on October 31st 1918. Harper Avenue, 2020.ĭonoghue divides the novel into four sections: Red, Brown, Blue, and Black which depict three days in the life of narrator, Julia Power. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Donoghue, Emma.
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