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Old 07-25-2008, 03:43 PM   #682
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The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Halfway through this and it is amazing and up there as one of the best books I've read this year - and definitely one of the best books to have gotten published this year. A woman in a mental hospital is approaching her 100th birthday and recounting her story - but the version of events she's writing down in secret doesn't always match up with the story that the hospital's psychiatrist is slowly piecing together from old and mouse-eaten records. Which doesn't do justice to how beautifully this is written and what a rich story is being told.

Why do I think I've read something by Barry? Where did you get the book? Sounds like my sort of story.
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