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The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

  Published: 2008, Faber and Faber Genre: fiction Themes: Ireland, family, psychiatric care,  social injustice My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤❤ With the library closed, and all my lockdown loans returned via the library letter box, I am back to reading books from our own bookshelves.  This turned out to be a good thing as I had completely forgotten the story in this book and therefore the ending came as a complete surprise to me. I have read loads of books over the years and I seem to have a talent for mentally discarding what I read, even if I really enjoyed the book.  Yesterday I was looking at a huge list of books that were collected together as a collection that everyone should read in their lifetime.  As I looked down the 1001 titles, I thought I had read about 60 of them, but it could be more, because there were plenty of titles that looked familiar, but I really couldn't say for sure that I had read them.  So, back to the book in hand.  The Secret Sc...