A Ghost in the Throat

"The prose debut of acclaimed poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa."

"I wish we had been given a room-by-room tour of Ní Chonaill's stanzas."

"This is a remarkable achievement."

"This incandescent, uncategorisable prose debut is...many things—a reimagining of an 18th-century life that combines scholarship with imaginative verve; an account of obsession and a meditation on the limits of biography; a memoir of post-feminist motherhood ..."

"Ni Ghriofa is deeply attuned to the gaps, silences and mysteries in women's lives, and the book reveals, perhaps above all else, how we absorb what we love — a child, a lover, a poem — and how it changes us from the inside out ..."

"This obsession, though heartfelt, can occasionally be long-winded for the reader, who cannot hope to match the author's level of interest in her subject."

"Earning well-deserved accolades abroad, the book merges memoir, history, biography, autofiction, and literary analysis ..."

"Most experimental literature—as good as it may be—fails the most important test: is it a page turner?"

"a kaleidoscopic book of 'homemaking' that centers the intuitive knowledge of the body in order to learn to live—again, again, and again."

"'I could do that, and I will.' Or so she says."