The Secret Scripture By Sebastian Barry

Faber & Faber

Sebastian Barry made the Booker shortlist for this follow-up to World War 1 saga ‘A long, Long Way’. I loved this new work which is a deeply lyrical and engaging account of 100-year-old Roseanne Clear, a patient in a Roscommon mental hospital, who puts pen to paper and recounts her eventful life in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War. Recommended.