The Secret Scripture
A BBC2 'Between the Covers' Booker Gem 2021
by Sebastian Barry
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Pub Date Mar 05 2015 | Archive Date Jan 20 2023
Faber and Faber Ltd | Faber & Faber
Description
OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW
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
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.
Advance Praise
'It's a story to treasure, and Roseanne is a teller to remember.' The Times
'Richly allusive and haunting ... magnificent and heart-rending.' Joseph O’Connor, Guardian
'In Roseanne McNulty - sly, confused, defiant, passionate - Sebastian Barry has created one of the most memorable narrators in recent fiction.' Sunday Telegraph
'The Secret Scripture is one of the first great novels of this century.' Evening Herald (Ireland)
'A beautiful book about human frailty and mistakes people live to rue.' Irish Independent
'The Secret Scripture assembles a disquieting portrait of a woman destroyed by politics and misogyny ... exceptionally finely written.' Daily Telegraph
'A poignant story of the horrors and hypocrisies of rural Ireland, the cruelties of civil war and the pernicious influence of the priesthood.' Daily Mail
'Barry remains the master of language in this formidable book.' Sunday Independent
'These lives are reimagined in language of surpassing beauty.' New York Times
'Luminous and lyrical.' O (The Oprah Winfrey Magazine)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780571323951 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 320 |
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