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The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry (born 1955)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Secret Scripture
Penguin Books · United States · 28 April 2009 · Paperback · 336 pages
The Secret Scripture
Viking · United States · June 2008 · Hardcover · 300 pages
The Secret Scripture
Faber and Faber · United Kingdom · 2008 · 300 pages
The Secret Scripture
Faber and Faber · United Kingdom · 2009 · 312 pages
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Roseanne McNulty, said to have been a great beauty in her Sligo youth, has spent about half a century in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital and is nearly a hundred. With the old building due to be pulled down, she starts writing a testimony of herself, recalling her childhood with her father, a cemetery superintendent drawn into the civil war of 1922, and hides the pages under a floorboard. Her psychiatrist, Dr Grene, who has to decide which patients will be moved and which released, keeps a commonplace book of his own and begins to look into her past, including the papers of a parish priest. Their two accounts of her early life, her marriage and her committal do not agree.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Ireland, 1920s–1930s
- First published
- 2008
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
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9780670019403 (Viking, United States)
9780571215287 (Faber and Faber, United Kingdom)
9780143115694 (Penguin Books, United States)
9780571215294 (Faber and Faber, United Kingdom)
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