Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
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, 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.
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include Our Lady of Sligo and The Pride of Parnell Street, and his novels, Annie Dunne and most recently, A Long Long Way. He has won numerous awards, among them the London Critics Circle Award, and now lives in Wicklow with his family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571215287 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571215289 |
| Title | Secret Scripture |
| Author | Sebastian Barry |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2008-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2009, Winner of Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2009, Winner of Costa Novel Award 2008, Winner of Costa Book of the Year 2008, Short-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009, Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2009, Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 |
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