Said the Dead

Description 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. ‘There’s magic in this one’ Kevin Barry’This book will be read for decades to come’ Anne Enright’Astonishing’ Yiyun Li’Nobody currently writing is pulling off sorcery like this’ RTÉThe more she learned, the more certain she became: this other world was alive and true and trembling, and very close to her own. Now she had a secretIn 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.