The Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition of Doireann Ní Ghríofa's new book, Said the Dead, is out tomorrow, and you can order your copy now!
A work of sublime intensity and tenderness, Said the Dead is both a history and a ghost story, breaking the boundaries between worlds - past and present, imagined and real.
- Signed and Numbered by the Author - Features a cover design exclusive to Kennys Bookshop - Includes extra content, a poem, exclusive to this edition - Hardback - Limited to 1,000 copies
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
Doireann Ní Ghríofa at Kennys Bookshop
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.
