The Secret Scripture

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Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne faces an uncertain future, as the 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. This relationship intensifies as he mourns the death of his wife.

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**THE NEWER WORLD – THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW NOVEL FROM SEBASTIAN BARRY – IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**

AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008
Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008
A Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century
Featured on BBC2's 'Between the Covers' as a Booker Gem 2021

Roseanne McNulty is one of the last inhabitants of a soon-to-be closed asylum in the West of Ireland. No one knows how old she is or can remember why she was committed. But she knows and, finally, is about to tell her psychiatrist, Dr Grene. Refracted through the haze of memory, Roseanne's account is an extraordinary alternative history of Ireland, and the story of a life blighted by mistreatment, yet marked still by passion and hope.

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Weight 0.266 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.9 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

312
Language

English
Edition

Reprint
Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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