# Ghost Light

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- Authors: [Joseph O'Connor](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-oconnor)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-10-03

## Description

'A virtuoso display of literary talent... brimming with sympathy and skill' Irish Times Dublin, 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

## Editions

### Ghost Light

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2911-262-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2019-10-03
- Language: en_GB