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In The Secret Scripture, psychology, religion, family and politics permeate this literary puzzle and epic story of corrupted power and its lingering effects. Two narratives compete: the secret one of the 100-year-old woman long incarcerated in a Mental Hospital and the unfolding one discovered by her doctor, who is evaluating her condition. Love, betrayal and the role of the Catholic Church inform the conflicts that emerge. Sebastian Barry is a playwright and novelist: his novel A Long Long Way was a 2005 Man Booker Prize finalist.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Monday, June 23, NYT Books of the Times review.
NPR Summer Books 2008, excerpt from The Secret Scripture
About the book.
Interview with Sebastian Barry by The Guardian.