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Title:The Secret Scripture (McNulty Family)
Author:Sebastian Barry
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 300 pages
Published:May 1st 2008 by Faber and Faber (first published April 2nd 2008)
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature

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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.

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Original Title: The Secret Scripture
ISBN: 0571215289 (ISBN13: 9780571215287)
Edition Language: English
Series: McNulty Family
Characters: Roseanne McNulty, Dr Grene
Literary Awards: Booker Prize Nominee (2008), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2008), Costa Book Award for Novel (2008), Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year (2009), Costa Book of the Year (2008)

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Reading this novel I have felt as if I were peeling two onions: one yellow, one purple. First one, then the other, and back to the first and so on. My illusion was that after peeling its outer tunic and I proceeded to remove, slowly and gradually each scale leaf, I was lifting a veil and approaching the inner bud, a hidden core. The truth. The yellow onion has less thinner and finer leaves. In their frailty and subtler delicacy of colour, they are as the veiled and vulnerable memories of an old

The author slowly weaves together two heart-wrenching and tragic versions of the life of Roseanne McNulty, a 100-year old woman residing (for much of her adult life) in a psychiatric asylum. The first version is Roseannes own elusive and often unreliable past recollection, recorded in her secret journal, hidden in the floorboards of her room. Another version is slowly revealed by her psychiatrist; Dr. Grene, as he investigates her sketchy past records and evaluates her suitability for release

A gem of a book, beautiful story, beautifully written. I recommend this one to my friends!

Rose McNultry is almost 100 years old. For most of her life she has been a patient in Roscommon Mental hospital in rural west Ireland. This "mad" woman has lived here most of her adult life. The hospital is going to be shut down and she is facing a scary future of being moved from where she has lived most of her life. She has frequent talks with her therapist/psychiatrist in the weeks leading up to the hospital's closure. Her therapists job is to determine what to do with the patients left

I really wish Goodreads offered the chance to award half-stars. This was my second Sebastian Barry novel, after Days Without End, which I read back in 2018. While TSS wasn't quite poor enough to gain three stars, DWE wasn't good enough to gain five, and so, despite enjoying one far less than the other, both get four stars. It hardly seems fair, really.Incidentally, this would have earned the full four stars if I hadn't guessed the 'surprise twist' at precisely the 31% mark (this despite

I was first introduced to Sebastian Barry with Days Without End published in 2016 and winner of the Costa Book Award and a Booker nominee. Days Without End hit me like a ton of bricks...so fabulously written and such a tale. Did I ever imagine that another of his books could become so beloved? Well the Secret Scripture has. But it also made me REAL ANGRY.Set after the Irish Civil War, Roseanne Clear McNulty is about to turn 100 years old and wants to tell her story. Roseanne has spent most of

The Catholic Church was all powerful, a time in Ireland when religious and political factions cause almost unceasing distress and death. A young beautiful woman, a protestant woman, dares to fall in love with a Catholic but will end up spending a great part of her one-hundred years inside a psychiatric institution. Why and how did this happen?A story written down by a very old woman, an account of the priest uncovered by Doctor Grene who is charged with discovering which of the residents,