{"product_id":"ghost-light","title":"Ghost Light","description":"''A virtuoso display of literary talent...brimming with sympathy and skill'' Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDublin, 1907. 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''Masterful in its management of re-imagined lives and the time they inhabit'' Financial Times","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56941157384527,"sku":"9781529112627","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781529112627_1-ghost-light.jpg?v=1770183943","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/ghost-light","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}