The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (New York Review Books Classics)
- Authors
- Moore, Brian
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Tags
- literary , single women , classics , literature & fiction , literary fiction , british & irish , psychological , women's fiction
- ISBN
- 9781590174203
- Date
- 1955-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.32 MB
- Lang
- en
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 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 heartbreak away from revealing it to the world.