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A gorgeous new novel from the author of the person Booker finalist AN EXTENDED Long Way
As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the very most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is an individual at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her life.
As Roseanne revisits her past, hiding the manuscript under the floorboards in her bedroom, she learns that Roscommon Hospital will be closed in a couple of months and that her caregiver, Dr. Grene, has been asked to evaluate the patients and decide if they can go back to society. Roseanne is of particular interest to Dr. Grene, so that he researches her case he discovers a document compiled by a local priest that tells an extremely different story of Roseanne’s life than what she recalls. As doctor and patient try to understand one another, they begin to uncover long-buried secrets about themselves.
Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture can be an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for a lot of the twentieth century.
