The secret scripture
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Sebastian Barry
Publisher: Faber; Faber and Faber
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780571215294
Subjects: Social conditions; Physician and patient; Older women; Fiction
Description: Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne faces an uncertain future, as the mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship intensifies as he mourns the death of his wife.