The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry · 2008 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Roseanne McNulty, about a hundred years old, has lived for decades in a Roscommon psychiatric hospital about to close, and secretly writes the story of her life. Her psychiatrist Dr Grene, who has to decide what becomes of her, keeps a journal of his own. Its picture of mid-century Irish religious and social power won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year.

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