Barry admitted that, from the first, there had been dispute about the ending, and that even some of those readers who loved the book could, at best, only "forgive the ending, in a Christian way". One of the pleasures of the Guardian book club event, however, is that it presumes prior knowledge of the book, so readers and author were allowed to be quite explicit about the novel's climactic revelation. There may be readers of this column who have yet to reach the novel's final chapters, so I must be evasive about the precise plot twist that has provoked the arguments. S ome critics have complained about the ending of Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture, which involves what has been thought a hard-to-take coincidence.
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