A review by lifeinsherds
A Ghost In The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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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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