A ghost in the throat the fascinating story of a literary obsession that weaves and vindicates the lives of two women separated by two centuries

Doireann Ní Ghríofa's life is marked by raising her children, still small: feedings, baby food to prepare, washing machines, trips to and from school by car... Exhausting days with endless lists of chores to check off and nights that are always too short. This is how her routine goes, until suddenly she comes across the voice of a woman, a mother like her, author of an ancient lament in verse for the death of her beloved, which becomes a revelation and begins to resonate with enormous force in her. Unexpectedly, the poem invades her and makes her confuse her words, looks and steps with those of that other woman, their respective sacrifices and even the faces of her children, until it becomes an obsession. A Ghost in the Throat is the story of this literary possession, to which Doireann gives herself: she visits the places where Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill lived and suffered, she investigates her choices as a woman and mother, she questions the pillars on which her world was based. And as Doireann reveals the erased life of this woman from the past, she also discovers her own. An exploration of motherhood and desire, a testimony to a literary passion capable of crossing eras and languages, A Ghost in the Throat is an unclassifiable, truly singular book, which interweaves and vindicates the lives, with their illusions and their disappointments, of two women separated by two centuries.