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OLD GOD''S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY''S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008
Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008
A Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century
Featured on BBC2''s ''Between the Covers'' as a Booker Gem 2021

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she''s spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Ro

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 05/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780571323951, 978-0571323951
      ISBN10: 0571323952

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      OLD GOD''S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY''S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

      Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year

      Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008
      Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008
      Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008
      A Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century
      Featured on BBC2''s ''Between the Covers'' as a Booker Gem 2021

      Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she''s spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Ro

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