A Ghost in the Throat- Doireann ní Ghríofa

‘This is a female text’. What an opening statement!

A shimmery, unsettling, beautiful book that flits effortless from the 1700s to present day weaving its way into the heart of female experience.

In 1700s Ireland the noblewoman Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill drinks a handful of her murdered husband’s blood and composes the legendary poem Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire lamenting her loss. In the present a struggling young mother reads the poem and feels the uncontrollable echoes through her own life. She begins a quest to discover the poet’s story, poetically weaving her way through lives lived long ago and yet familiar.