{"product_id":"june-2026-book-of-the-month-morgan-recommends-said-the-dead-doireann-ni-ghriofa","title":"June 2026 Book of the Month| Morgan recommends... Said the Dead - Doireann Ní Ghriofa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMorgan says... Ní Ghriofa explores with remarkable imagination and empathy the patient records of an asylum in Cork. Although heavy, she never shies away from the brutal truth and yet leaves you with a shining sense of hope. Difficult at times but compassionate and incredibly written.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e---\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHad she lived in another time, she too might have found herself held within those walls.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow, she notices a sign: FOR SALE. It is the first of many signs. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGuided 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 the hospital best. They murmur from archives and old records. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA work of sublime intensity and tenderness, \u003cem\u003eSaid the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collected","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56831219237244,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/5662\/2637\/files\/9780571396160_SaidtheDead.jpg?v=1780394712","url":"https:\/\/collectedbooks.co.uk\/products\/june-2026-book-of-the-month-morgan-recommends-said-the-dead-doireann-ni-ghriofa","provider":"Collected","version":"1.0","type":"link"}