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Bei einer Routineuntersuchung trifft der Psychiater Dr. Grene auf die jährige Roseanne. Diese soll einst ihr Kind getötet haben. Doch als Grene sich näher mit Roseanne und ihrer Lebensgeschichte auseinandersetzt, kommen bei ihm Zweifel auf. Der Roman The Secret Scripture von Sebastian Barry aus dem Jahr diente dem Film als literarische Vorlage. Im Jahr erschien eine deutsche. Versand. Ein verborgenes Leben - The Secret Scripture. Mehr Infos: DVD, Standard Version, Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch, Ab 12, erschienen am Ein verborgenes Leben - The Secret Scripture () Deutsch (Dolby Digital ), Englisch (Dolby Digital ). DVD-Vertrieb. Universum Film. Ein verborgenes Leben - The Secret Scripture ein Film von Jim Sheridan mit Vanessa Redgrave, Rooney Mara. Inhaltsangabe: Dr. Grene (Eric Bana) soll die. Bildgewaltige, ergreifende Adaption des preisgekrönten Romans von Sebastian Barry mit Vanessa Redgrave, Rooney Mara und Eric Bana. Ein verborgenes Leben – The Secret Scripture: Sendetermine · Streams · DVDs · Cast & Crew. Deutsch. Wikipedia Deutsch · Englisch. Wikipedia Englisch.
What may seem different may turn out to be of the same nature. And yet, do not belittle banality. The games that the mind plays sometimes act as a defence against sorrow and despair.
Leaves of the onion, leaves of the book. Both could make you feel vulnerable and cry. View all 28 comments. I expected to love this book because I loved Days Without End.
This is a radical change of pace. Mostly it made me angry. Not that there's anything wrong with the writing. It's a bit like exploring a forgotten or secret garden full of shy beauty if take the time to look.
Based on news stories of the time and place, this is oddly a happy ending version of so many women's stories. View all 6 comments.
The Catholic Church was all powerful, a time in Ireland when religious and political factions cause almost unceasing distress and death.
A young beautiful woman, a protestant woman, dares to fall in love with a Catholic but will end up spending a great part of her one-hundred years inside a psychiatric institution.
Why and how did this happen? A story written down by a very old woman, an account of the priest uncovered by Doctor Grene who is charged with discovering which of the residents, patien The Catholic Church was all powerful, a time in Ireland when religious and political factions cause almost unceasing distress and death.
A story written down by a very old woman, an account of the priest uncovered by Doctor Grene who is charged with discovering which of the residents, patients would be allowed to go free when this old institution is destroyed.
Yet, the accounts vary greater, so which one to believe? And so slowly unravels the story of a life, a time when a priest's word was unquestionable.
Irish mothers and their sons, I married one, the son, well possibly the mother too. A very dense and wordy book, a book one must read slowly, a very sad and poignant tale.
A very good and touching tale, that brings that whole period back to life and shows us the true story of what actually happened to Roseanne, and what Doctor Grene will decide to do in the face of the truth.
View all 17 comments. Apr 25, Elyse Walters rated it it was amazing. A deeply emotional heartbreaking story My heart was aching!
Painfully sad! Love, loss, loneliness, victimized injustice, betrayal, prejudice, Catholic Church repression Spectacular beautiful prose.
Note: there are many top notch reviews that have been written: But, in my opinion, this is a great book to go into blind— THEN Many thanks to the Goodreads community for steering me in the direction of this novel!
View all 13 comments. I really wish Goodreads offered the chance to award half-stars. While TSS wasn't quite poor enough to gain three stars, DWE wasn't good enough to gain five, and so, despite enjoying one far less than the other, both get four stars.
It hardly seems fair, really. The prose was also slightly overdone in places, though all in all I'm rather in love with Barry's writing.
View 2 comments. Sep 15, Carol rated it really liked it Shelves: irish-literature , e-audible. The author slowly weaves together two heart-wrenching and tragic versions of the life of Roseanne McNulty, a year old woman residing for much of her adult life in a psychiatric asylum.
Another version is slowly revealed by her psychiatrist; Dr. Grene, as he investigates her sketchy past records and evaluates her suitability for release i The author slowly weaves together two heart-wrenching and tragic versions of the life of Roseanne McNulty, a year old woman residing for much of her adult life in a psychiatric asylum.
Grene, as he investigates her sketchy past records and evaluates her suitability for release into the community.
Roseanne also recalls the turmoil following the Irish Civil War as well as the abusive power of a parish priest.
It is a beautifully rendered Irish tale that will haunt me for some time to come. View all 15 comments. I really loved this book, all of it, the prose, the content, the Irish-ness of it.
The words are chosen so well that they flow smoothly in telling the story. Memory is a center of the tale as is Ireland and fate as in all Irish stories.
There is love and hate, war but no real peace. There is always misunderstanding, but there are occasional attempts to move beyond this. The ending was foreshadowed to some degree but I didn't mind that at all.
Once again it fits with the fateful-ness and Irish nat I really loved this book, all of it, the prose, the content, the Irish-ness of it.
Once again it fits with the fateful-ness and Irish nature of it all. This was my first book by Barry but most definitely not the last.
View all 41 comments. It had me completely captivated from start to finish. The story was subtle but chilling, with many layers of tragedy and dark elements a cemetery, rats, and a disturbing priest to name a few…not to mention the suspicion of the sanity of the main character.
But the writing was beautiful and not a single word was wasted. I loved the gothic-like atmosphere that was created and how it tied in with the dark themes and symbolism throughout.
There were two narrators with distinct voices, both of which I was equally eager to read as they alternated in the story.
They gave such intimate accounts of their lives and the horrific and sad times they had experienced, that it felt more like reading the memoirs of real people.
I loved how it all came together in the end. View all 31 comments. Shelves: own , fiction , post , gift. First, if you're going to read this, please don't read the goodreads description.
This book didn't change my world, but it was good. It's made up mostly of recollections by its very elderly narrator, but the way it uses perhaps unreliable memory isn't like, say, Ishiguro, who uses gradual revelations to turn a story on its head.
There are surprises or not, if you are the sort of person who guesses everything before you're told , but the surprises aren't supposed to make you think you've been h First, if you're going to read this, please don't read the goodreads description.
There are surprises or not, if you are the sort of person who guesses everything before you're told , but the surprises aren't supposed to make you think you've been had.
It's wonderfully written, if a tad on the dreamy side in occasional spots, and the story is fairly absorbing. I think I would have gotten a lot more out of it if I knew more about Irish history, but nonetheless I was hooked the whole way through, and enjoyed it a bunch.
I didn't need a reminder that he's a good writer, but reading The Secret Scripture told me that he's not a one-trick pony. Maybe that's the wrong word, because A Long, Long Way , with its very linear plot and straightforward, honest descriptions, doesn't really have any tricks.
The Secret Scripture has tricks, but they don't overwhelm the piece - Barry is not a gimmickist. I guess the worst you could say of him is that he sometimes strays into the whimsical.
He is also a poet, and you can tell. Sligo made me and Sligo undid me, but then I should have given up much sooner than I did being made or undone by human towns, and looked to myself alone.
The terror and hurt in my story happened because when I was young I thought others were the author of my fortune or misfortune; I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.
The baby sees a star winking in the dark night window, and puts out his hand to hold it. So my father struggled to grasp things that were in truth far beyond his reach, and indeed when they showed their lights were already old and done.
To add much more to this narrative would be superfluous. These are the stories that are imprinted in my DNA, I think.
I gravitate towards them and find myself like a thirsty soul whose thirst is only quenched by these stories of Ireland: the duality of hope and despair, in one breath.
It should go without saying View all 10 comments. If this were home I would go mad! What exactly happened to her and who's version of the retelling can you trust?
A psychological mystery weaving back and forth in time over a period of almost 90 years, I had different sensations reading this atmospheric tale.
Not a long book but the pacing got a bit monotonous midway through. Old women take their time telling their stories.
Exquisite prose sigh. It was so sad. The book blurb says "a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the twentieth century.
Tragically this is not an isolated tale but one repeated over and over all over the globe into depending on where you had the luck or misfortune to be born.
Finishing up I felt like I had just walked through a haunted house. A real haunted house. Mar 04, Laysee rated it it was amazing Shelves: five-star-books.
It is hard to resist a secret and harder yet when it is as masterfully unraveled as this one. Sebastian Barry tells an absorbing story about a year-old woman and the secrets that installed her for many wretched decades in a mental hospital.
Roseanne is powerless against harsh political realities and the unforgiving religious and social tempe It is hard to resist a secret and harder yet when it is as masterfully unraveled as this one.
Roseanne is powerless against harsh political realities and the unforgiving religious and social temper of those times. She seems to me a woman more sinned against than sinning.
When the story begins, Roseanne is on the threshold of being evicted from the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, as it will soon be demolished.
The plan is to return its inmates to the community except those assessed to be unfit for independent living. The prospect of freedom is frightening to Roseanne.
William Grene, the year-old psychiatrist visits Roseanne to establish reasons for her initial commitment and her eligibility for continued residence at the new Roscommon.
Barry captures the respectful doctor-patient relationship that over time comes close to friendship. The Secret Scripture takes the form of two diaries that are alternately presented.
It is intriguing that not all the pieces fit, and fit they must for me. Both have spouses they love and who love them, and yet they tragically lose them through one isolated act of indiscretion.
Both carry so much sadness that dissolve into tears at unsuspecting moments - tears that defy attempts to itemise their causes.
Both have a quickened sensitivity to the pain of others, having been honed in the crucible of their own suffering. In his conversations with Roseanne, Dr.
Grene becomes keenly aware of "That strange responsibility we feel towards others when they speak, to offer them the solace of any answer.
While reflecting on his failure to communicate with his wife, Dr. Grene confesses: "We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.
What is the nature of history? Grene wonders outloud, "Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it?
I would suggest, not very. And that therefore most truth and fact offered by these syntactical means is treacherous and unreliable How Dr.
Grene justifies a choice he made moved me: "Today was the day she might have told me everything, and today was the day I opted myself for her silence, her privacy.
Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. In the cocoon of her silence, she writes her pain into the floorboards.
Stories are important. The Secret Scripture is a sad story but it could well be the story of any other woman who had lived during the years of the civil war in Ireland and the intolerance of its religious communities.
I wish I knew more about the history of Ireland and imagine that this book will mean more to a reader who is better informed. The revelation at the close of the novel is shocking but marvelous.
This is my first novel by Sebastian Barry. I know I will read more of his work. View all 18 comments. Centenarian Roseanne Clear McNulty has been confined in a mental institution in rural Ireland for over four decades.
The institution is being replaced, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Grene, must determine if she should be released or sent to the new smaller facility.
Roseanne is writing her life story, hiding it under the floorboards of her room. This book is a deep ch Centenarian Roseanne Clear McNulty has been confined in a mental institution in rural Ireland for over four decades.
This book is a deep character study of two individuals set against a backdrop of political and religious rivalries in Irish history. The plot revolves around the reasons Roseanne was initially confined, leading to up to a decision regarding her mental health.
The story is artfully told, gradually revealing more information to uncover the secrets of the past. It explores the relationships among memory, fact, history, and the stories we tell ourselves.
The writing is evocative. The prose sequences are reminiscent of a Victorian novel, though the time period covered here is the early s through It is an emotional book about trauma, loss, betrayal, injustice, aging, and hope.
I found it beautifully told, thought-provoking, and memorable. Really wanted to like this one-- the summary sounded like something I would fall right into-- but alas, I trudged, slugged, and finally finished this book.
Disappointed that I never connected to the characters or the story at all, surprised to find myself at this end of the spectrum when so many others enjoyed this one.
Roseanne Clear has been living in Roscommon- a mental facility for the past 80 some odd years.
Roscommon is being demolished and Dr. Grene is tasked with figuring out which patien Really wanted to like this one-- the summary sounded like something I would fall right into-- but alas, I trudged, slugged, and finally finished this book.
Grene is tasked with figuring out which patients need to stay and move to another facility and which patients were mistakenly diagnosed and can move on to the rest of the world.
As he delicately attempts to figure out Roseanne, she tells her story too. Grim and heartbreaking as it was-- hard to find this emotion when the connection was lacking.
View all 14 comments. This book was sent to me by my mother, who is Irish, and it was sent to her by a childhood friend, also Irish, Joan's name on the front page; so, I felt obliged to read it, knowing full well it was not a book I would choose for myself.
I read the first 80? And then more or less exactly from page 90 to about I had no recollection of it at all - Blank. I must have put it down, and not returned - dis This book was sent to me by my mother, who is Irish, and it was sent to her by a childhood friend, also Irish, Joan's name on the front page; so, I felt obliged to read it, knowing full well it was not a book I would choose for myself.
I must have put it down, and not returned - disinterested, bored perhaps. And then on page when Roseanne meets John Lavelle up Knocknarea, I realized - oh Wow I remember this - it is the most beautiful declaration of love - ever.
I most definitely remembered all of that - and pretty much all the rest of the book. I had no recall, and so I was genuinely surprised and most sincerely moved by Dr Grene's discovery about himself.
I can only conclude that I did in fact read the whole book the first time around, but that there must be some reason or reasons why I could remember only specific parts.
The first 90 pages - easy to explain - they are quite sensationalist - and I use this word in it's derogatory connotation - there is too much in this opening third - too much Drama!
The book runs to pages. I shuddered for the second time, when I read how Roseanne's mother stabbed the little metal hands, from her clock into the eyes of her husband, Roseanne's beloved father Joe Clear lying in his coffin.
Yeuch - Father Gaunt is the slime to beat all slimy Catholic priests - and Roseanne shows incredible strength in resisting him.
Her mother - has clearly withdrawn in mental derangement and Roseanne, 16, needs to find work to support herself and her mother.
She tells the priest where to go. And then - the next pages - forgotten. I can conclude quite reasonably - out of sheer boredom.
On the second run through I made myself continue. This is where the author fills us in on Roseanne's middle years - the job in the cafe, her marriage to Tom McNulty and at the same time we hear about the current story which I found really hard to date - I did eventually pin it down to or thereabouts, through our main narrator Dr Grene, who is responsible for the Roscommon Mental Institute where Roseanne McNulty has been a patient for most of her life.
I think there is something of a structural problem here, the two stories are told via written documentation from our two main characters.
Roseanne, writes her life story on loose pages which she hides under the floorboards in her room. Her great age of compels her to make some account of her life, and she feels some compulsion to help Dr Grene with his enquiries.
The second document is - 'Dr Grene's Commonplace Notebook', a diary of sorts about the hospital, the patients under his care, and his personal life, notably his relationship with his estranged wife, Bet: the problem being that both narrators, wander, halt, backtrack, segue off into different stories.
Roseanne I could easily forgive, - she 's almost , and her voice is so humble and sad; and she is taking great care to try and remember her life as accurately as possible.
Dr Grene, on the other hand - my God - exasperation - of the highest order - quite possibly - the reason for my page memory lapse.
And then we have the stunning chapter 16 - 'Roseanne's Testimony of Herself' which culminates with the despicable Father Gaunt once more, who has contrived over a number of years to annul her marriage to Tom NcNulty and demands Roseanne stay - a sort of house prisoner, in her hut by the sea near to Strandhill.
Here is Roseanne commenting on the nature of memory: I must admit there are 'memories' in my head that are curious even to me. I would not like to have to say this to Dr Grene.
Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the contents jumbled about, maybe not only from neglect but also from too much haphazard searching in them, and things to boot that don't belong there.
I certainly suspect - well, I don't know what I certainly suspect. It makes me a little dizzy to contemplate the possibility that everything I remember may not be - may not be real , I suppose.
There was so much turmoil at that time that - that what? I took refuge in other impossible histories, in dreams, in fantasies.
I don't know. I don't actually agree with everything above - for example I don't think memory "is neglected", but yes trauma, it is now well understood that people deliberately blank awful memories as a way to protect themselves.
But you can also see the hesitant style - Two narrators with this kind of hesitancy can get - tedious. Secondly and this becomes clear as I write this - I don't like that it's the man with the status of doctor and psychiatrist, who 'absolves' Roseanne's faulty memory; who finally decides that Roseanne's "Testimony" is also valid although she refuses to remember certain facts concerning her father.
The psychiatrist decides eventually, at long last that perhaps there are omissions of a sort in Father Gaunt's testimony - the reasons for Roseanne's sectioning in a psychiatric hospital.
I have to say I dislike Dr Grene - he's supposed to be a good guy - but he always looks at the formal, the status, the material aspects of the world.
Father Gaunt is a priest therefore his testimony is 'sacrosanct'. Maybe it's also because the younger version of Rose, embodied by Rooney Mara, is so polarized that the plot, which is located in the….
A alightly better shot soap opera with one of the cringiest twists ever. Movies for middle aged women. Good story when it's dealing with mental illness and the historical treatment of women but not very well told.
Bella historia contada en dos tiempos, Hablando de la maldad humana. I've watched a movie "The Secret Scripture".
There isn't any big mistake or loss. It's well made movie. But it also means this movie isn't a masterpiece. Or I should say this movie is rely on Rooney Mara too much.
If she left from this movie, what remained? Maybe this movie would be mysterious one. There was an accident. The main character Rooney acted killed her baby.
But this was real thing? She saw some kind of illusion and confused, didn't she? That can be very charming point of mystery. But the director won't tell this story as such a mysterious way.
A bartender at a small pub in Dublin told me Rooney Mara lived down the street while filming this. Stephen takes Rose to his family home.
In January , it was revealed that Jessica Chastain and Vanessa Redgrave had been cast in the film, with Noel Pearson producing the film, and Thaddeus O'Sullivan directing the film from a screenplay by Johnny Ferguson.
Filming was originally slated to begin in May and September S distribution rights to the film. The film was scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 24 March Reviews of the film have generally been mixed to negative.
The website's critical consensus reads, " The Secret Scripture has acclaimed source material and a well-chosen cast in its corner, but despite its stars' valiant efforts, this adaptation was better left on the page.
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Edit Cast Credited cast: Rooney Mara Rose Theo James Father Gaunt Eric Bana Grene Aidan Turner Jack Conroy Vanessa Redgrave Lady Rose Jack Reynor Michael McNulty Susan Lynch Nurse Adrian Dunbar Hart Tom Vaughan-Lawlor McCabe Pauline McLynn Chrissie Omar Sharif Jr.
Daniel O'Brien John Connors Joe Brady Elva Trill Pregnant Woman Charlie Kelly Edit Storyline Roseanne McNulty must vacate the soon-to-be demolished mental institution in Roscommon, Ireland that she's called home for over 50 years.
Taglines: At the end of your life, what will you remember? Edit Did You Know? Goofs When Michael prepares to leave Rose and re-join the war, he dresses in his formal uniform and prepares to go.
There were two narrators with distinct voices, both of which I was equally eager to read as they alternated in the story.
They gave such intimate accounts of their lives and the horrific and sad times they had experienced, that it felt more like reading the memoirs of real people.
I loved how it all came together in the end. View all 31 comments. Shelves: own , fiction , post , gift. First, if you're going to read this, please don't read the goodreads description.
This book didn't change my world, but it was good. It's made up mostly of recollections by its very elderly narrator, but the way it uses perhaps unreliable memory isn't like, say, Ishiguro, who uses gradual revelations to turn a story on its head.
There are surprises or not, if you are the sort of person who guesses everything before you're told , but the surprises aren't supposed to make you think you've been h First, if you're going to read this, please don't read the goodreads description.
There are surprises or not, if you are the sort of person who guesses everything before you're told , but the surprises aren't supposed to make you think you've been had.
It's wonderfully written, if a tad on the dreamy side in occasional spots, and the story is fairly absorbing. I think I would have gotten a lot more out of it if I knew more about Irish history, but nonetheless I was hooked the whole way through, and enjoyed it a bunch.
I didn't need a reminder that he's a good writer, but reading The Secret Scripture told me that he's not a one-trick pony.
Maybe that's the wrong word, because A Long, Long Way , with its very linear plot and straightforward, honest descriptions, doesn't really have any tricks.
The Secret Scripture has tricks, but they don't overwhelm the piece - Barry is not a gimmickist. I guess the worst you could say of him is that he sometimes strays into the whimsical.
He is also a poet, and you can tell. Sligo made me and Sligo undid me, but then I should have given up much sooner than I did being made or undone by human towns, and looked to myself alone.
The terror and hurt in my story happened because when I was young I thought others were the author of my fortune or misfortune; I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.
The baby sees a star winking in the dark night window, and puts out his hand to hold it. So my father struggled to grasp things that were in truth far beyond his reach, and indeed when they showed their lights were already old and done.
To add much more to this narrative would be superfluous. These are the stories that are imprinted in my DNA, I think. I gravitate towards them and find myself like a thirsty soul whose thirst is only quenched by these stories of Ireland: the duality of hope and despair, in one breath.
It should go without saying View all 10 comments. If this were home I would go mad! What exactly happened to her and who's version of the retelling can you trust?
A psychological mystery weaving back and forth in time over a period of almost 90 years, I had different sensations reading this atmospheric tale.
Not a long book but the pacing got a bit monotonous midway through. Old women take their time telling their stories. Exquisite prose sigh.
It was so sad. The book blurb says "a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the twentieth century.
Tragically this is not an isolated tale but one repeated over and over all over the globe into depending on where you had the luck or misfortune to be born.
Finishing up I felt like I had just walked through a haunted house. A real haunted house. Mar 04, Laysee rated it it was amazing Shelves: five-star-books.
It is hard to resist a secret and harder yet when it is as masterfully unraveled as this one. Sebastian Barry tells an absorbing story about a year-old woman and the secrets that installed her for many wretched decades in a mental hospital.
Roseanne is powerless against harsh political realities and the unforgiving religious and social tempe It is hard to resist a secret and harder yet when it is as masterfully unraveled as this one.
Roseanne is powerless against harsh political realities and the unforgiving religious and social temper of those times. She seems to me a woman more sinned against than sinning.
When the story begins, Roseanne is on the threshold of being evicted from the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, as it will soon be demolished.
The plan is to return its inmates to the community except those assessed to be unfit for independent living. The prospect of freedom is frightening to Roseanne.
William Grene, the year-old psychiatrist visits Roseanne to establish reasons for her initial commitment and her eligibility for continued residence at the new Roscommon.
Barry captures the respectful doctor-patient relationship that over time comes close to friendship. The Secret Scripture takes the form of two diaries that are alternately presented.
It is intriguing that not all the pieces fit, and fit they must for me. Both have spouses they love and who love them, and yet they tragically lose them through one isolated act of indiscretion.
Both carry so much sadness that dissolve into tears at unsuspecting moments - tears that defy attempts to itemise their causes.
Both have a quickened sensitivity to the pain of others, having been honed in the crucible of their own suffering. In his conversations with Roseanne, Dr.
Grene becomes keenly aware of "That strange responsibility we feel towards others when they speak, to offer them the solace of any answer.
While reflecting on his failure to communicate with his wife, Dr. Grene confesses: "We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.
What is the nature of history? Grene wonders outloud, "Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it?
I would suggest, not very. And that therefore most truth and fact offered by these syntactical means is treacherous and unreliable How Dr.
Grene justifies a choice he made moved me: "Today was the day she might have told me everything, and today was the day I opted myself for her silence, her privacy.
Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. In the cocoon of her silence, she writes her pain into the floorboards.
Stories are important. The Secret Scripture is a sad story but it could well be the story of any other woman who had lived during the years of the civil war in Ireland and the intolerance of its religious communities.
I wish I knew more about the history of Ireland and imagine that this book will mean more to a reader who is better informed. The revelation at the close of the novel is shocking but marvelous.
This is my first novel by Sebastian Barry. I know I will read more of his work. View all 18 comments. Centenarian Roseanne Clear McNulty has been confined in a mental institution in rural Ireland for over four decades.
The institution is being replaced, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Grene, must determine if she should be released or sent to the new smaller facility.
Roseanne is writing her life story, hiding it under the floorboards of her room. This book is a deep ch Centenarian Roseanne Clear McNulty has been confined in a mental institution in rural Ireland for over four decades.
This book is a deep character study of two individuals set against a backdrop of political and religious rivalries in Irish history.
The plot revolves around the reasons Roseanne was initially confined, leading to up to a decision regarding her mental health.
The story is artfully told, gradually revealing more information to uncover the secrets of the past.
It explores the relationships among memory, fact, history, and the stories we tell ourselves. The writing is evocative. The prose sequences are reminiscent of a Victorian novel, though the time period covered here is the early s through It is an emotional book about trauma, loss, betrayal, injustice, aging, and hope.
I found it beautifully told, thought-provoking, and memorable. Really wanted to like this one-- the summary sounded like something I would fall right into-- but alas, I trudged, slugged, and finally finished this book.
Disappointed that I never connected to the characters or the story at all, surprised to find myself at this end of the spectrum when so many others enjoyed this one.
Roseanne Clear has been living in Roscommon- a mental facility for the past 80 some odd years. Roscommon is being demolished and Dr.
Grene is tasked with figuring out which patien Really wanted to like this one-- the summary sounded like something I would fall right into-- but alas, I trudged, slugged, and finally finished this book.
Grene is tasked with figuring out which patients need to stay and move to another facility and which patients were mistakenly diagnosed and can move on to the rest of the world.
As he delicately attempts to figure out Roseanne, she tells her story too. Grim and heartbreaking as it was-- hard to find this emotion when the connection was lacking.
View all 14 comments. This book was sent to me by my mother, who is Irish, and it was sent to her by a childhood friend, also Irish, Joan's name on the front page; so, I felt obliged to read it, knowing full well it was not a book I would choose for myself.
I read the first 80? And then more or less exactly from page 90 to about I had no recollection of it at all - Blank.
I must have put it down, and not returned - dis This book was sent to me by my mother, who is Irish, and it was sent to her by a childhood friend, also Irish, Joan's name on the front page; so, I felt obliged to read it, knowing full well it was not a book I would choose for myself.
I must have put it down, and not returned - disinterested, bored perhaps. And then on page when Roseanne meets John Lavelle up Knocknarea, I realized - oh Wow I remember this - it is the most beautiful declaration of love - ever.
I most definitely remembered all of that - and pretty much all the rest of the book. I had no recall, and so I was genuinely surprised and most sincerely moved by Dr Grene's discovery about himself.
I can only conclude that I did in fact read the whole book the first time around, but that there must be some reason or reasons why I could remember only specific parts.
The first 90 pages - easy to explain - they are quite sensationalist - and I use this word in it's derogatory connotation - there is too much in this opening third - too much Drama!
The book runs to pages. I shuddered for the second time, when I read how Roseanne's mother stabbed the little metal hands, from her clock into the eyes of her husband, Roseanne's beloved father Joe Clear lying in his coffin.
Yeuch - Father Gaunt is the slime to beat all slimy Catholic priests - and Roseanne shows incredible strength in resisting him.
Her mother - has clearly withdrawn in mental derangement and Roseanne, 16, needs to find work to support herself and her mother. She tells the priest where to go.
And then - the next pages - forgotten. I can conclude quite reasonably - out of sheer boredom. On the second run through I made myself continue.
This is where the author fills us in on Roseanne's middle years - the job in the cafe, her marriage to Tom McNulty and at the same time we hear about the current story which I found really hard to date - I did eventually pin it down to or thereabouts, through our main narrator Dr Grene, who is responsible for the Roscommon Mental Institute where Roseanne McNulty has been a patient for most of her life.
I think there is something of a structural problem here, the two stories are told via written documentation from our two main characters.
Roseanne, writes her life story on loose pages which she hides under the floorboards in her room. Her great age of compels her to make some account of her life, and she feels some compulsion to help Dr Grene with his enquiries.
The second document is - 'Dr Grene's Commonplace Notebook', a diary of sorts about the hospital, the patients under his care, and his personal life, notably his relationship with his estranged wife, Bet: the problem being that both narrators, wander, halt, backtrack, segue off into different stories.
Roseanne I could easily forgive, - she 's almost , and her voice is so humble and sad; and she is taking great care to try and remember her life as accurately as possible.
Dr Grene, on the other hand - my God - exasperation - of the highest order - quite possibly - the reason for my page memory lapse.
And then we have the stunning chapter 16 - 'Roseanne's Testimony of Herself' which culminates with the despicable Father Gaunt once more, who has contrived over a number of years to annul her marriage to Tom NcNulty and demands Roseanne stay - a sort of house prisoner, in her hut by the sea near to Strandhill.
Here is Roseanne commenting on the nature of memory: I must admit there are 'memories' in my head that are curious even to me. I would not like to have to say this to Dr Grene.
Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the contents jumbled about, maybe not only from neglect but also from too much haphazard searching in them, and things to boot that don't belong there.
I certainly suspect - well, I don't know what I certainly suspect. It makes me a little dizzy to contemplate the possibility that everything I remember may not be - may not be real , I suppose.
There was so much turmoil at that time that - that what? I took refuge in other impossible histories, in dreams, in fantasies.
I don't know. I don't actually agree with everything above - for example I don't think memory "is neglected", but yes trauma, it is now well understood that people deliberately blank awful memories as a way to protect themselves.
But you can also see the hesitant style - Two narrators with this kind of hesitancy can get - tedious. Secondly and this becomes clear as I write this - I don't like that it's the man with the status of doctor and psychiatrist, who 'absolves' Roseanne's faulty memory; who finally decides that Roseanne's "Testimony" is also valid although she refuses to remember certain facts concerning her father.
The psychiatrist decides eventually, at long last that perhaps there are omissions of a sort in Father Gaunt's testimony - the reasons for Roseanne's sectioning in a psychiatric hospital.
I have to say I dislike Dr Grene - he's supposed to be a good guy - but he always looks at the formal, the status, the material aspects of the world.
Father Gaunt is a priest therefore his testimony is 'sacrosanct'. I suppose that is the point of Dr Grene's character to show how men of the world behave, and after all Dr Grene is suitably softened, and humiliated slightly with the death of his wife, his own advancing years and yes his backstory about his adoption and the death of his sibling - killed in a road accident because of him.
He learns via life experiences to be a little bit more like Roseanne - to hesitate, to offer silence, to not pass judgement, to forgive.
Still didn't like him. Does it not strike anyone - that there is just too much in this story, stories? I loved John Lavelle's avowal of love for Roseanne - but Roseanne herself silent, dismisses it, preferring the gay, satisfying life with her husband Tom, the musician, the politician, and not with the outcast Lavelle - but Lavelle is in fact her true reflection.
She doesn't want to recognize this. What about Lavelle's backstory - his wife shot through the head, whilst holding her infant sons, one is killed instantly with her, the other is dropped and damaged in the head by his fall.
The shots are fired, randomly by soldiers in a boat, looking for a desserter, or rival faction in the Civil War: I forget. It is a strange book - with decided highs and lows of narrative skill and incident.
Too much incident in some places, not enough in others. I still can't get past completely forgetting the Big Reveal at the end - I clearly didn't think too much of Dr Grene first time round; I think I have softened somewhat on the second reading.
Mar 19, Dolors rated it really liked it Shelves: read-in A slow but compelling thriller which covers the mysterious circumstances of an interned patient in a mental hospital in rural 40s Ireland.
The supposedly "disturbed" character, Roseanne, now a hundred years old, and who has been interned for more than 50 years, is writing a secret journal in which she tells, little by little, the real story of her life.
It's a sad but smartly and touching account of an extremely beautiful young woman who is cheated by the social system of her time.
A society that A slow but compelling thriller which covers the mysterious circumstances of an interned patient in a mental hospital in rural 40s Ireland.
A society in which blaming innocent people out of spite is the normal way, just because you are different. The narrator, in this case Roseanne, makes the reader feel like a privileged witness of the unfairness of it all, especially of the doomed intervention of the Catholic Church and its deviated and intransigent leaders.
At the same time, we follow the also miserable life of the patient's Psychiatrist, Dr. Grene, who has been taking care of Roseanne for the last 20 years.
He is investigating all the interned patients as it seems the mental hospital is to be shut down and only the really disturbed patients will go to the new settlement.
When he starts digging into Roseanne's past, his interest is picked and a peculiar and vivid relationship starts to grow between these two characters, leading the story to a great and unexpected culmination with such a magnificent turn of the story that it makes up for the first slower chapters.
I would say the book gives you a big reward for your perseverance, as the end is really worth it; but this is not a light and easy reading.
A good book nonetheless. Some great quotations: "After all, the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it" "It is sometimes I think the strain of ridiculousness in a person, a ridiculousness born maybe of desperation, that pierces you through with love for that person" "He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us" "Little sins of omission that loom large now" "A healthy person might be content with life as a quality in itself, and look to the passing of the years, and the gaining of age, and then great age, with interest.
But I am miserable before the task" "It is worthless talking about what we have been spared by death. Death grins at that I am sure.
Death of all creation knows the value of life" "Can you love a man you only knew - in the Biblical sense - for a night? I do not know.
But there was love there, gentle, fierce, proper love. God forgive me" "They are the old ones, they are the club that no one wants to join.
But we are never old to ourselves. That is because at close of day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body" Feb 04, Chrissie rated it liked it Shelves: kirkus , read , mystery , ireland , hf , audible-uk.
I enjoyed this book while I was reading it; emotions and ideas are wonderfully expressed. I am saying I loved the writing. Then came the end! I had been warned that it was bad, but the ending is so terribly bad that it is hard to imagine a worse ending.
It is so improbable! Not just in one respect, but in absolutely everything that is left to be resolved. It just wrecks the whole story. The only good point is that the ending is pretty quick; it doesn't take up too many pages of the novel.
Otherwi I enjoyed this book while I was reading it; emotions and ideas are wonderfully expressed. While not focusing directly on the conflicts, it shows remarkably well how they affected the common man.
This aspect of the story I appreciated. A word of warning though, it is by no means a cheery tale. The story is told by two characters. Roseanne McNulty is about one hundred years old.
Her psychiatric doctor is telling us the story too. It is acknowledged that in times past patients had been classified as insane not for psychological problems but rather for social, political and religious reasons.
The audiobook is narrated by Stephen Hogan. In a book such as this, which switches between two tellings of given events, it is important that one can easily distinguish between the two.
Most chapter titles do indicate whose view is being told, but when you stop and start an audiobook this information is not easily available. A lengthy pause between parts would have helped, or different intonations or even two separate narrators could have been used.
Do not read the following spoiler if you intend on reading the book. You kick yourself because you are given hints along the way, but you disregard them because where they lead seems so far-fetched.
This book is, I guess, worth reading, though I am still trying to get over the ending! View all 8 comments. Readers also enjoyed.
Literary Fiction. Bella historia contada en dos tiempos, Hablando de la maldad humana. I've watched a movie "The Secret Scripture".
There isn't any big mistake or loss. It's well made movie. But it also means this movie isn't a masterpiece.
Or I should say this movie is rely on Rooney Mara too much. If she left from this movie, what remained? Maybe this movie would be mysterious one.
There was an accident. The main character Rooney acted killed her baby. But this was real thing? She saw some kind of illusion and confused, didn't she?
That can be very charming point of mystery. But the director won't tell this story as such a mysterious way.
A bartender at a small pub in Dublin told me Rooney Mara lived down the street while filming this. I can't remember how we got on the subject of Rooney Mara but I'm sure it was because of me and it was completely unprompted.
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By signing up, you agree to receiving newsletters from Rotten Tomatoes. I don't actually agree with everything above - for example I don't think memory "is neglected", but yes trauma, it is now well understood that people deliberately blank awful memories as a way to protect themselves. Tatyana Ali can't remember how we got on the subject of Rooney Mara but I'm sure it was because of me and it was completely unprompted. She cuts him down, discovers it is Michael and shelters him while he recovers, hiding him from the anti-British locals. Holiday Movie Guide 
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