David O'Mahony: Struggling to find a book as genius as Doireann Ní Ghríofa's genre-defying offering

I’ve taken breaks from reading before, but never because a book like Doireann Ní Ghríofa's 'Said The Dead' was so good it left the sort of dreamy sense that anything else would be a step down, or a mood killer
Doireann Ní Ghríofa's 'Said The Dead' has proven so atmospheric, heartfelt, and engagingly unique that everything else in my to-be-read pile seems, well, tame.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa's 'Said The Dead' has proven so atmospheric, heartfelt, and engagingly unique that everything else in my to-be-read pile seems, well, tame.

I’ve been in a reading funk, which is a bit of a problem for a writer.

I’ve been in a writing one too, really, but whether the two are related I can’t say. For the latter, I can definitely give a reason — Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s  Said The Dead.

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