The Secret Scripture
by Sebastian Barry · 2008
Literary Fiction · ranked #70 in category
Winner · The Costa Book of the Year, 2008
Roseanne McNulty, a hundred years old in a Roscommon mental hospital, writes her memoirs in secret. Her psychiatrist Dr Grene, compiling her case history, discovers that the truth of her life is nothing like her file says. Barry's Booker-shortlisted novel is a study in Irish institutional memory, the violence done to women, and the stories people tell themselves to survive.
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