Description
Set over the course of a single day, this novel follows Mary Lavery—born Mary Dunne and reshaped by successive marriages—now living a comfortable life with her third husband while privately unraveling the story of who she truly is. As she moves through ordinary routines, her beauty and social ease give way to anxiety, self-scrutiny, and the unsettling sense that she is being haunted by two deaths that refuse to stay in the past. With Brian Moore’s incisive, psychologically driven style, the book becomes a portrait of identity under pressure: how memory, reinvention, and guilt can turn even a well-ordered life into a battleground. Blending intimacy and emotional tension, it explores themes of self-deception, the cost of reinvention, and the fragile boundary between respectability and inner turmoil.
Available Editions
paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published Jan 1, 2012
242 pages
ISBN: 9781408827031
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Details
First Published
1968
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for I Am Mary Dunne by Brian Moore.