{"product_id":"the-girls-of-greystones-house-maeve-orourke-9798235826304","title":"The Girls of Greystones House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome houses remember the women who entered them. Greystones House writes them into its walls.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cstrong\u003eÉabha Ní Raghallaigh\u003c\/strong\u003e arrives in Greystones, County Wicklow, she believes she has been chosen for an elite academic scholarship at a private women's foundation devoted to Irish folklore, ritual language, and cultural preservation. The house above the grey sea is beautiful, severe, and watchful, with locked rooms, old portraits, a forbidden salt garden, and seven rules every scholar must obey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of the Foundation's work is a mysterious manuscript known as \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeabhar na mBan Liath\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, The Book of the Grey Women. Its language is said to belong to a forgotten female tradition, one passed through mourning, secrecy, blood, and the body itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe manuscript names this forbidden language \u003cstrong\u003eAn Teanga Chraicinn\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Skin Tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a language built through flesh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA wound can become a word.\u003cbr\u003eA scar can become a sentence.\u003cbr\u003eA body can become a book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Éabha is drawn deeper into the scholarship of Greystones House, she becomes entangled with \u003cstrong\u003eIseult Ní Chathasaigh\u003c\/strong\u003e, a brilliant and dangerous student whose fascination with the manuscript hides a private inheritance of grief, obsession, and betrayal. Around them, the other women begin to change. Marks appear on skin. Old names rise from beneath the soil. The salt garden calls from beyond the locked gate. The house begins to answer in voices that should have been dead for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe more Éabha translates, the more the manuscript seems to know her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe more she desires Iseult, the less certain she becomes that desire belongs only to the living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd beneath Greystones House, the Grey Women are waiting for the final phrase to be spoken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Girls of Greystones House\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is an Irish Gothic dark academia novel of forbidden language, female obsession, haunted scholarship, coastal dread, and the terrifying power of a body that refuses to stay silent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maeve O'Rourke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235826304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Bell Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Maeve O'Rourke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50779465154815,"sku":"9798235826304","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15824dbf-10aa-45fc-821d-6be24c32db74.jpg?v=1792946631","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-girls-of-greystones-house-maeve-orourke-9798235826304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}