Literary
Historical fiction
2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Published in Spanish as La escritura secreta
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure.
What it is
Told in letters, diaries or messages · it leaves you shaken
What happens in it
Letters and diaries
Unreliable narrator
Closed setting
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Who tells it
- Letters and documents
- Style
- Literary
- Prose
- Lyrical
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you enjoy not trusting who's telling it
- you like a story shut inside one place
- you like a book that stays with you for days
Maybe not if…
- you're not in the mood to cry
- you'd rather skip the hard scenes
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