The lonely Passion of
Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
...... is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a
woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked
Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be
short-listed three times for the Booker Prize) and established him as an astute
chronicler of the human soul.
Judith Hearne
is an unmarried woman of a certain age who has come down in society. She has few
skills and is full of the prejudices and pieties of her genteel Belfast
upbringing. But Judith has a secret life. And she is just one heart break away
from revealing it to the world.
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