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The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry


Ref: 12459The Secret ScriptureThe Secret Scripture
AuthorSebastian BarryPublished: London, Faber, 2007
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustjacket. A 100 year old patient of a mental hospital comes to terms with her life as the mental hospital prepares to close down. "(Dark, awkard and exceptionally finely written", Ruth Scurr, The Daily Telegraph, 03/05/08) "(He makes enthrallingly beautiful prose out of the wreckage of these lives by allowing them to have the complication of actual history in all its messy elusiveness. "History, as far as I can see, is not the arrangement of what happens", he writes, "but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up against the assault of withering truth". His achievement in this magnificent and heart-rending novel is a kind of restitution" Joseph O'Connor, The Guardian, 24/05/08).
Price: £ 16.99

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