The story is told in the form of two alternating narratives: the first is Roseanne’s Testimony of Herself in which she relates anecdotes and memories from her childhood in Sligo, Ireland, building up a picture of the events that led to her admission to the mental hospital. There’s something about Roseanne that intrigues him and he becomes determined to find out why she is there and how she came to be admitted to a mental institution. Meanwhile, the hospital is about to be closed down and Dr Grene has begun the slow process of reassessing his patients to see if they can return to the community. She’s now almost one hundred years old and has decided to devote her final days to recording her life story in a secret journal. The Secret Scripture tells the story of Roseanne McNulty, who has spent most of her adult life in Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. This is the first, and I’ll be posting another two later in the week before I start to discuss my 2011 reading.
It’s 2011, the start of a new reading year, but I still have a few reviews to post of books that I read in December 2010.
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