Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The by Brian Moore, Mary Gordon (Afterword); 1955/2010. Softcover. (New York Review Books) (CO)

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance.

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.