312 pages
English language
Published June 29, 2009 by Faber, Faber and Faber.
3 stars
(1 review)
Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne faces an uncertain future, as the 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. This relationship intensifies as he mourns the death of his wife.
Subjects
- Social conditions
- Physician and patient
- Older women
- Fiction
Places
- Sligo (Ireland)
- Ireland
- Sligo