A Ghost in the Throat

"Billed as a genre-busting blend of 'autofiction, essay, scholarship, sleuthing and literary translation', the book is an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism delivered in a lush, lyrical prose that dazzles readers from the get-go ..."

"This is a remarkable achievement."

"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 ..."

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

"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 ..."

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

"But it isn't just a story."

"What is this ecstasy of self-abnegation, what are its costs?"

"Ní Ghríofa certainly gives us a new, feminist vision of a woman saving another woman, righting a historical imbalance that persists in women's continued sacrifices, from lopped donor ponytails to donated breastmilk to lopsided breasts."

"Ní Ghríofa isn't the first to translate the poem...but the way she weaves this years-long process with tales from her own life results in a truly unique project that comes alive on the page ..."