Yesterday saw my final review for my Brian Moore at 100 Readalong challenge which celebrated one of Belfast’s greatest literary exports during his centenary year. It has been an absolute joy to immerse myself in so much of his work and to relish his skillful storytelling and depth of characterisation across a diverse range of…
Brian Moore’s 100th birthday was this week and I’m continuing my centenary read-along with his 1981 novel The Temptation of Eileen Hughes. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes is another of Moore’s lean character studies, with a tight focus on a few characters and a moment of crisis which upends several lives. It lacks some of…
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Brian Moore published No Other Life in 1993 when he was at the height of his writing career. The Booker nomination for Lies of Silence in 1990 had raised his profile and No Other Life was a great critical success. William Trevor in the New York Review of Books claimed that ‘Moore has written nothing…
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