Review: On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
Faber and Faber, €16.99
Emer O'Kelly
Sebastian Barry's previous novel, The Secret Scripture, gave his central character, a 100-year-old woman immured by her family in a mental hospital for most of her life, a kind of unlikely apotheosis.
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