Book - BookDetective

Name: The Secret Scripture

Author: Sebastian Barry
Year: 2008
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
Fiction, Historical fiction, Award winners
Culture: Ireland

Purchase/reserch links:

Goodreads

LibraryThing

Amazon

ISBNs:
9780571215287
9780143115694
0571215289
0143115693

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.

This book is part of the "McNulty Family" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty"
First published in 1998
Rank:

, Original star rating:

, Adjusted star rating:

, Pop rating:

"The Temporary Gentleman"
Rank:

, Original star rating:

, Adjusted star rating:

, Pop rating: