{"product_id":"said-the-dead-by-doireann-ni-ghriofa-signed-sprayed-edge","title":"Said the Dead by Doireann Ni Ghriofa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe new book from the award-winning author of A GHOST IN THE THROAT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page. In 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHad she lived in another time, she too might have found herself held within those walls. Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE. It is the first of many signs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuided 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA work of sublime intensity and tenderness, Said the Dead 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for the work of Doireann Ní Ghríofa- \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The effect is electric, like seeing a ghost returned to life.' New Statesman \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Obliterates every clear definition of genre and form . . . Astounding and utterly fresh.' Irish Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Lush, lyrical prose that dazzles readers from the get-go . . . sumptuous, almost symphonic, in its intensity.' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.' Paris Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat:Hardback 368 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003eImprint:Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003eEdition:Main\u003cbr\u003eISBN:9780571396160\u003cbr\u003ePublished:21 May 2026\u003cbr\u003eClassifications:Ireland, Autobiography: general, Memoirs, History: specific events \u0026amp; topics\u003cbr\u003eWeight:474g\u003cbr\u003eDimensions:224 x 145 x 34 (mm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave of Nostalgia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64737574453597,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/8838\/2301\/files\/9780571396160_7b8c9495-b583-4af5-b7d8-52672aa52ceb.jpg?v=1779188509","url":"https:\/\/waveofnostalgia.co.uk\/products\/said-the-dead-by-doireann-ni-ghriofa-signed-sprayed-edge","provider":"Wave of Nostalgia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}