The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore

Product Description

Eileen Hughes is young, hauntingly beautiful and very naive. Befriended by her wealthy employers, Bernard and Mona McAuley, she leaves Ulster for the first time in her life to spend a holiday with them in London. But all is not well with the McAuleys, and, in her bewildering innocence, Eileen fails to see the perilous vulnerability of her position until it is almost too late...
A psychological masterpiece filled with passion and suspense. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes is a stunning exploration of obsession and morality.

From the Publisher

'Brian Moore is surely one of the most versatile and compelling novelists writing today.' - Daily Telegraph
'I cannot think of another living male novelist who writes about women with such sympathy and understanding.' - Times Literary Supplement
'The book is on fire, and goes on burning in one's memory.' - New York Times
'Moore is a brilliant storyteller, a novelist of great subtlety and depth.' - Independent on Sunday

About the Author

Brian Moore was born in Belfast in 1921 and was educated there at St Malachy's College. He served with the British Ministry of War Transport during the latter part of the Second World War in North Africa, Italy and France. After the war he worked for the United Nations in Europe before emigrating to Canada in 1948, where he became a journalist and adopted Canadian citizenship. He spent some time in New York before moving to California, where he now lives and works. Five of his novels have been made into films: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, Cold Heaven and, most recently, Black Robe.
Brian Moore won the Authors' Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, the W. H. Smith Literary Award for Catholics, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection, and the Sunday Express Book of the Year Prize for The Colour of Blood. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times with The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood and Lies of Silence.