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Said the Dead

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Narrated by: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
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From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page.

In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had she lived in another time, she too might have found herself held within those walls.

Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE.

It is the first of many signs. Guided by an irresistible impulse, she follows them. Soon, she is trespassing, stealing, absconding from the routine of mother, spouse, daughter, as she uncovers a chorus of startling voices: those of the women who knew this place best. They murmur from archives and old records. They haunt from stairwells and walls. In them - and in one figure in particular -- she may find meaning and solace, righteous anger, salvation even. Or her final vanishing?

A work of sublime intensity and tenderness, Said the Dead breaks the boundaries between worlds -- past and present, imagined and real, fact and fiction -- to make something new and lasting: an experience full of danger, full of love and full of truth.

©2026 Doireann Ní Ghríofa (P)2026 Faber & Faber Haunted Ghost
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I don't have words to described this book I listened to it all one day . My grandad was a genealogist I'm 45 now but was never interested has a kid I look at my family tree and have so questions. with no one to ask. The themes of MH illnesses particularly for women really spoke too me those characters could be me or my ancestors. I will definitely be looking into my family tree and find out the story that are hidden under other gas lighting, blaming and shaming of women.

This book was incredible

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I have been so absorbed by this book in a way that feels like a merging with the story itself. It is so interesting to take a different perspective on women’s experiences in institutions in Ireland given the recent and current inquiries in the south and now north of Ireland into the workhouses, laundries and institutions that held so many women. Excellent performance too- like theatre.

Extraordinary book about the perilous search for truth.

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I can’t praise it enough and the authors narration was captivating.. a diamond of a book

Outstanding.. completely absorbing ..

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one of the best audio books I've listened too and definitely the best author read audio book. great performance. beautiful written too

very good

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