The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Paperback)

from AnnieHidalgo

What a good book. A sympathetic portrait of a single woman, on the edge where single meets spinster. It makes you aware of how a person's perception of themself, and their world, can differ so much from how others see them. And as a single woman, can you read this and not think, "There but for th...

from AnnieHidalgo

What a good book. A sympathetic portrait of a single woman, on the edge where single meets spinster. It makes you aware of how a person's perception of themself, and their world, can differ so much from how others see them. And as a single woman, can you read this and not think, "There but for th...

from Shuffy2

Is there more to Judith Hearne than meets the eye? How does she handle her life of solitude? Plain Judith Hearne spent most of her adult life taking care of her aunt, who has now died and left her on her own, something Judith has wanted for a long time. She has her freedom but by 1950's standards...

from markfinl

Judith Hearne is lonely old maid who lives in a Belfast boarding house. She has no family, is only intermittently employed, and stretches a meager savings as much as humanly possible just to make sure she can provide herself with the necessities. Her only pleasures in life are attending church se...

from praymont

Brian Moore published The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (originally called simply Judith Hearne), in 1955 after he had left Belfast for Montreal. For this book Moore won the Author's Club First Novel Award. The book appears on the Guardian's list of 1000 books 'everyone must read'. A 1988 movie...