The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

Original title: The secret scripture

earliest edition we have, 2008 Faber and Faber Ltd, 2008

Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice

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...

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The secret scripture hardcover · 2008 · Viking · 300 pages · 9780670019403
The secret scripture edition · 2008 · Thorndike Press · 481 pages · 9781410411303
The Secret Scripture ebook · 2008 · Penguin Group USA, Inc. · 9781436223584
The secret scripture edition · 2008 · Faber and Faber · 300 pages · 9780571215287
The Secret Scripture edition · 2008 · Faber and Faber Ltd · 9780571247523

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