{"product_id":"9780571396160","title":"Said the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eA Ghost in the Throat\u003c\/i\u003e, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had she lived in another time, she too might have found herself held within those walls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, she notices a sign: FOR SALE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the first of many signs. Guided by an irresistible impulse, she follows them. Soon, she is trespassing, stealing, absconding from the routine of mother, spouse, daughter, as she uncovers a chorus of startling voices: those of the women who knew the hospital best. They murmur from archives and old records. They haunt from stairwells and walls. In them - and in one figure in particular -- she may find meaning and solace, righteous anger, salvation even. Or her final vanishing?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of sublime intensity and tenderness, \u003ci\u003eSaid the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e breaks the boundaries between worlds -- past and present, imagined and real, fact and fiction -- to make something new and lasting: an experience full of danger, full of love and full of truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the work of Doireann Nì Ghrìofa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The effect is electric, like seeing a ghost returned to life.' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Obliterates every clear definition of genre and form . . . Astounding and utterly fresh.' \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lush, lyrical prose that dazzles readers from the get-go . . . sumptuous, almost symphonic, in its intensity.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Past versus present, blood versus milk, birth versus death . . . dichotomies abound, but the questions of women's lived experiences and who history remembers link them all.' \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026#38; Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57201729896821,"sku":"9780571396160","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780571396160.jpg?v=1779088670","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780571396160","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}