The book is full of Irish references – poems, plays, songs and the landscape. The stream of consciousness voice of Molly (you are sixty-five now) keeps changing from second to third person narrative (as the years in which the novel is set changes from 1905 to 1952 and back and forth) which adds the much needed flexibility to the novel and also at the same time distances the reader from the characters and read the novel in a more objective manner.
She lives alone expect for the ghostly presence of her dead-lover and so begins her story. The novel opens in a dodgy London boarding house in a shady neighbourhood of 1952, where an older Molly is reviewing and revisiting her past with Synge. Synge and his lover Molly Allgood, the Irish actress with the stage name of Maire O’Neill. When I say wonders, I am referring to the literary strokes by Joseph O’Connor and I love how he has melded fact with fiction in this captivating love story, the story of Irish playwright J.M. Ghost Light is a brilliantly written small book of many wonders on every page. It is with this spark I started reading, “Ghost Light” and was surprised to know that the SOC narrative was used in this one. It is a great form of writing and I have always enjoyed it a little more than the other forms. There is always a set of readers who appreciate a stream of consciousness narrative and those who do not.
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