Ghost Light

Joseph O'Connor

Ghost Light
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 October 2019
Pages
272
ISBN
9781529112627

Ghost Light

Joseph O'Connor

A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation. Reissued in a new series look to coincide with the publication of his new novel, Shadowplay

A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation from the international bestselling author of Star of the Sea ‘A virtuoso display of literary talent…brimming with sympathy and skill’ Irish TimesDublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works.Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom in America. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, whose life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Their affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is quarrelsome, affectionate and tender.Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London’s bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift of memories. Her once dazzling career has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat.

‘Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit’ Financial Times

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