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A Ghost in the Throat

Von: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Gesprochen von: Siobhán McSweeney
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Nominated for the Desmond Elliot Prize

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ní Ghríofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart.

In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill s Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi, professor of poetry at Oxford University, as 'the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century'.

In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with its parallels with her own life, and sets out to track down the rest of the story. A Ghost in the Throat is a devastating and timeless tale about one woman freeing her voice by reaching into the past and finding another's.

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I first came across this book in autumn 2020. I read it, read it again, again and again. There few books I have read more often than this one and in my opinion "A Ghost in the throat" is the most singular, most enrapturing, most haunting book I ever encountered. Now I got it on audible because my gaelic sucks, and the speaker has a pleasant Irish accent and pronounces the lines from the Caoineadh so beautifully.

relentlessly haunting and unforgettable

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Although it is well written, I couldn't warm up to it, so it was rather a struggle to listen to it to the end. I didn't get the immense obsession with the long dead Irish poet. Also the focus on motherhood, milk and household didn't make it better for me. But that is just my impression. Just not my type of book.

very particular, unusual type of book

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