Ghost Light: A Novel
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ISBN: 1250002311 / Publisher: Picador, January 2012
A collaborative effort between W. B. Yeats and resident playwright John Synge at 1907 Abbey Theatre gives way to a barrier-breaking affair with teen actress Molly Allgood, who after World War II looks back on her career and great love. By the best-selling author of Star of the Sea.
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"This involving novel puts you inside the mind of Molly Allgood, an elderly actress wandering around the brilliantly evoked 1950s London of crumbling lodging houses and uncleared bombsites. Contrasting with the down-at-heel circumstances to which she is reduced are memories, rendered with sensuous freshness and vernacular wit, of her rich past, especially her love affair in 1907 Dublin with the Abbey Theatre playwright John Synge in whose The Playboy of the Western World she starred." —Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times (London), "Books of the Year"
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