The Secret Scripture (Paperback)

Sebastian Barry

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The Secret Scripture Book Description

Nearing her one hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne's family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret history of Ireland's changing character. Exquisitely written, it is also the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Book Details

Title:	The Secret Scripture
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Author:	Sebastian Barry
Edition:	Paperback
ISBN:	0571215300
EAN:	9780571215300
No. of Pages:	312