The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year Award is a truly amazing book. I thank my dear friend Kathy for telling me about it at this time when I am heading off to the very region in which the novel is set - the northwest of Ireland.
The weaving of our lives and our connections. Choices made and consequences. The haunting of the past.
Sebastian Barry is a brilliant writer - his voice transports me to Ireland. Certainly not the Ireland of the Irish Tourist Board but of a place rich in the history of its forgotten people. A land rich in stories - what will my story be?
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