{"product_id":"said-the-dead","title":"Said the Dead","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback 368 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 9780571396160\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: 21 May 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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?A 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePraise for the work of Doireann Ní Ghríofa'The effect is electric, like seeing a ghost returned to life.' New Statesman 'Obliterates every clear definition of genre and form . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAstounding and utterly fresh.' Irish Independent'Lush, lyrical prose that dazzles readers from the get-go . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003esumptuous, almost symphonic, in its intensity.' Sunday Times'Past versus present, blood versus milk, birth versus death . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003edichotomies abound, but the questions of women's lived experiences and who history remembers link them all.' Paris Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mount Florida Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56638456627586,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9780571396160.jpg?v=1778421428","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.pro\/products\/said-the-dead","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}