{"product_id":"ghost-light-p-b","title":"Connor Joseph O: Ghost Light [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation from the international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eStar of the Sea \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDublin, 1907\u003c\/b\u003e. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutspoken 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e                                                                                                                                                                          'Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O, Connor Joseph","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44470699819298,"sku":"9781529112627","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/o-connor-joseph-ghost-light-p-b-9781529112627-40597866545442.jpg?v=1676479475","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/ghost-light-p-b","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}