Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Ghost In The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

6 reviews

birdsandships's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Grief, and Self harm

feralbookwife's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Just when I was ready to take a break from memoirs, this one knocked my socks off. Went into this one completely blind, just liking the title and cover style, and could not have picked a more poignant book. This is a powerful, deeply honest text with lots of tears along the way. 

CW: animal death, pregnancy, birth trauma, murder, violence, sexism, mental health, autopsy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Grief, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Car accident, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Colonisation, and Child death

hanz's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Interesting and strange book. I think the blurb is misleading and the book is more memoir than about Eibhlín Dubh, but it is partly about the authors relationship to Eibhlín Dubh and the poem Caoineadh Art Uí Laoghaire. It is also about motherhood, pregnancy and obsession and about connecting to women throughout history. I enjoyed it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Grief, Murder, and Miscarriage

lifeinsherds's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is one of those books I wish I could read for the first time again. I remember deciding to read this book because of the gorgeous cover and I haven't read a lot of Irish fiction. This novel absolutely blew me away. It's a quiet little book that makes such massive and important statements about the expectations of motherhood and growing up from a protagonist who is looking back on her own past. She further relates her own past and present limitations (and small joys) with those of an Irish poet who lived centuries before her.

Part memoir, part historical fiction, this book stunned me with every chapter. There is not one thing I would have wanted different from this book. And this is the author's prose debut!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer and Child death

Minor: Death, Violence, and Suicide attempt

notpresent22's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

1.25

I found this book very boring and a drag to get through. I personally wouldn’t recommend this book though I would recommend the poem (though it was not written by the author)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Body horror

TW:

The POV’s has a difficult birth with the near death of her daughter

lou_o_donnell's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Miscarriage, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry