The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
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The Secret Scripture

Author: Sebastian Barry

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/19/2008

Synopsis

Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards. Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to close and is evaluating its patients to determine whether they can return to society. Dr. Grene, Roseannes caretaker, takes a special interest in her case. In his research, he discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseannes life than what she recalls. As doctor and patient attempt to understand each other, they begin to uncover longburied secrets about themselves. Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy.

About Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry, named Irish fiction laureate in 2018, is a playwright and author whose novels include A Long Long Way, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as was The Secret Scripture, which was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Irish Novel of the Year. His plays have been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney, and New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi on March 21, 2017

"For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth." The Secret Scripture is a sublime work of fiction about memory and its effect on history a......more

Goodreads review by Manny on September 25, 2009

A wonderful, poetic book about love and memory. Also pain, and loss, and how you can miss the most important thing in the world, even though it's right under your nose. Ireland too, of course. We're all innocent Roseanne, locked up in an asylum for decades for no reason, or because she happened to be......more

Goodreads review by Debra on February 07, 2018

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 live......more

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