The Secret Scripture By Sebastian Barry Faber & Faber £16.99, 300 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 The last book I gave my father before he died was Sebastian Barry’s majestic novel, A Long Long Way.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture, about the journal of a mental patient nearing her 100th birthday, was ...

Like an ancient Rapunzel sequestered in a tower, Roseanne Clear McNulty is slowly measuring out her remaining days. At 100 years old, maybe more, she is a ruined beauty locked away in a moldering ...

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"Anything you see with love is the truth," a woman named Rose says in the trailer for Jim Sheridan's "The Secret Scripture." But love can also be blinding, as she learns over the course of her tragic ...

The Secret Scripture is an Irish film released in 2016, adapted from Sebastian Barry’s novel of the same name published in 2008. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the 20th century, it ...

It doesn’t take too long for Jim Sheridan’s period romance “The Secret Scripture” to contort itself into a befuddlingly bungled mess. But at the outset, it seems to have everything going for it. It ...

Fiona & Nick talk to Eric Bana about The Secret Scripture and superhero films. Call me By Your Name is also discussed. 4:42 – Eric Bana joins Nick and Fiona to talk about The Secret Scripture, ...

Robbie Collin has been a film critic for 20 years, during which time his reviews have seen him temporarily blacklisted by two major studios, dressed down in front of a Bafta committee and thrown off a ...

As a regional mental hospital is due to be shut down, a psychiatrist (Eric Bana) is sent to evaluate a patient (Vanessa Redgrave) who has been resident there for many years. As he interviews her, it's ...

The promise of a long-awaited Jim Sheridan return to his Irish roots on screen, complete with the exciting cast assembled, is enough to pique the interest of many a film fan – as the writer-director’s ...