Secret Scripture

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, and facing the closure of the mental institution where she's spent most her adulthood, Roseanne relates her astonishing life to psychiatrist Dr Grene. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Exquisitely written, it is the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love, passion and hope.

Prizes: Winner of Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2009 and Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award 2009 and Costa Book of the Year 2008 and Costa Novel Award 2008. Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2009 and Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008.