Doireann Ní Ghríofa KENNYS SIGNED LIMITED EDITION Said the Dead, the latest book by award-winning Irish writer Doireann Ní Ghríofa will be released on May 19th and the stunning Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition is available to pre-order now.
Said the Dead is a work of sublime intensity and tenderness. In Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby always flinches as she passes. Had her birth occurred in another decade, she too might have lived within those walls...
A piercingly beautiful book that is wounding sometimes and consoling at others, the work, in the end, is life confirming. YIYUN LI
There's magic in this one - a hauntingly beautiful and vivid and necessary book. KEVIN BARRY
A mysterious and beautiful and thoroughly absorbing book, which continues to reverberate long after you finish it. LUCY CALDWELL
A haunting, visionary act of witness; this book will be read for decades to come. ANNE ENRIGHT
Lyrical and propulsive, it sounds out the echoes of history and finds voices and images that are moving and indelible. Reading this book is like being put under a spell. SEÁN HEWITT
About the author
Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and essayist living in Cork. Her debut novel, A Ghost in the Throat, won the James Tait Black Prize and was voted Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, She is also the author of seven critically-acclaimed books of poetry. Awards for her writing include a Seamus Heaney Fellowship, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, among others.
Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition
- Signed and Numbered by the Author
- Features a bellyband and cover design exclusive to Kennys Bookshop
- Includes extra content, a poem, exclusive to this edition
