It begins with the avowal of the mistake she made. This “secret scripture” will be for herself alone. However, she begins to write an account of her life to get a better picture and grasp of it. She has chosen silence as the least painful answer to a hard existence. Roseanne is a wide-awake centenarian, longtime resident in Roscommon Mental Hospital. The ‘Irish Times’ called ‘The Secret Scripture’ “a great book” and Sebastian Barry “arguably, our greatest living novelist”. The Other Lecce (the Monumental Cemetery.
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