Author Description

Product Description After a holiday accident that apparently causes her husband's death, Marie Davenport is confounded by his overnight disappearance from the hospital morgue Review “Eerily suspenseful, compelling and brilliant.”—David Miller, The Independent (London) “One of the finest writers of our time.”—Ian Thomson, The Guardian “An entertainment, a theologicalTwilight Zone episode, a modernized Bernadette of Lourdes.”—Kirkus About the Author Brian Moore was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1921. He served with the Ministry of War in North Africa, Italy, and France during the Second World War. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and worked as a newspaper reporter for the Montreal Gazette from 1948 until 1952.While living in Canada, Moore wrote his first three novels, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Feast of Lupercal, and The Luck of Ginger Coffey, the first two set in Belfast, the third in Montreal. In 1959 he moved to the United States, but Canada continued to play a role in his later novels, including I Am Mary Dunne, The Great Victorian Collection, and Black Robe. His many honours included two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction.Brian Moore died in Malibu, California, in 1999.