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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. ** Review Novel by Brian Moore, published in 1955 as Judith Hearne, about an aging Irish spinster's disillusionment and her subsequent descent into alcoholism. The U.S. version was published in 1956 as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. Set in Belfast in the early 1950s, the novel is the study of a Roman Catholic woman who tries to gain the affection of James Madden, an unscrupulous retired man she meets at a local pub. Madden sees her as a potential investor in a business scheme, but she mistakenly infers a romantic interest. She begins to drink heavily, and sh

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Author

Brian Moore; Mary Gordon

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590174203

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.9 / 5 (602 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14