{"product_id":"emma-warren-up-the-youth-club-paperback-copy","title":"Doireann Ní Ghríofa: Said the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber, 2026, hardcover, 368 pages, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e13.7 x 21.7 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe more she learned,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethe more certain she became:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethis other world was alive\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eand true\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eand trembling,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eand very close\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eto her own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow she had\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ea secret\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. Had she lived in another time, she too might have found herself held within those walls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, she notices a sign: FOR SALE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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 the hospital 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of sublime intensity and tenderness, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSaid the Dead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60300105122176,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/81g2HUGjyYL._SL1500.jpg?v=1793700745","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/emma-warren-up-the-youth-club-paperback-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}