Top Secret Manuscript
About This Novel
"Top Secret Manuscript" is a novel by contemporary Irish writer Sebastian Barry. It won the "James Tait Black Memorial Award", the oldest literary award in the UK, and also won the "Best Novel of the Year Award" at the "Costa Literary Award" in 2008. In addition, the work won Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. "Top Secret Manuscript" tells the legendary life of the heroine Roxanne during the Irish War of Independence. At the beginning of the story, the elderly Roxanne, who has been a patient in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital for more than 50 years, decided to complete an autobiography during her last journey to record the life of her and her parents in Sligo in the early 20th century. She hid her story under the loose floorboards, not wanting the secret to be discovered for the time being. The second narrative thread of the story revolves around Dr. Green, the hospital's current chief psychiatrist.
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