num_pages: 223
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
titlecomplete: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Religion, Canada, Literature, Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3135
places: Ireland
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
publisher: Back Bay Books