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Secret Scripture

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OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWWinner of the 2008 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008A Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First CenturyFeatured on BBC2's 'Between the Covers' as a Booker Gem 2021Nearing 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, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges 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 and the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

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ISBN: 9780571247523
Publication date: 2nd October 2008
Author: Barry, Sebastian
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Ebook (Epub)