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The Secret Scripture de Sebastian Barry
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The Secret Scripture

de Sebastian Barry

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Viking Adult (2008), Edition: 6th, Hardcover, 304 pages

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I didn't want this book to end. It is beautifully written, thought provoking and an excellent story! ( )
  Cailin | Nov 30, 2009 |
This is a book I'll read again. Beautiful prose, spell binding story full of mystery, superb character development, and delving into the mind of those who live with fear, betrayal and longing. ( )
  bonsam | Nov 30, 2009 |
Big winner at the Irish Book Awards 2009:http://www.irishbookawards.ie/AwardDe...
  catalogthis | Nov 24, 2009 |
Roseann McNulty was the most beautiful girl in the village of Sligo, but as a Protestant she wasn't considered an acceptable wife for a good Catholic boy. Narrated by Roseann at the age of 100, she tells the story of her life and how she came to be a resident of an asylum for the insane for the past sixty years. Dark story yet Roseann tells is without malice or grudges. Great audiobook! ( )
  eejjennings | Nov 19, 2009 |
The Achilles heel of this Booker favourite had been the unlikely ending. But I suspect that White Tiger, the eventual winner, is unlikely to be a better a novel. The story is a two-hander related in alternate chapters by Doctor Greene, a sympathetic psychiatrist at a mental hospital close to closure in Sligo and one of its long term patients, the clearly sane and remarkably lucid centenarian, Roseanne McNulty. The gentle to-ing and fro-ing of voice is like a beautiful, calming tide in this affecting novel of memory. But yes, the melodrama is a bit overdone and the ending is fairly predictable and you do wish it wasn't going to be true. ( )
  dylanwolf | Nov 8, 2009 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0670019402, Hardcover)

A gorgeous new novel from the author of the Man Booker finalist A Long Long Way

As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her life.

As Roseanne revisits her past, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards in her bedroom, she learns that Roscommon Hospital will be closed in a few months and that her caregiver, Dr. Grene, has been asked to evaluate the patients and decide if they can return to society. Roseanne is of particular interest to Dr. Grene, and as he researches her case he discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseanne’s life than what she recalls. As doctor and patient attempt to understand each other, they begin to uncover long-buried secrets about themselves.

Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the twentieth century.

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