Synopsis
When Brendan brings his mother over from Ireland to live with him in New York, his wife Jane redecorates the guest room in a Japanese style. Even Brendan feels that it is an incongruous setting for old Mrs Tierney but Jane sees it the other way around: Mrs Tierney is incongruous in the room.
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Planning to devote time to writing his first novel, Brendan Tierney gives up his job, starts to live off his wife's earnings, and brings his aged mother to the USA from Ireland to act as their unpaid nanny. An ideal situation, it would seem; for self-centred and egotistical Brendan fails to see the tension building between his devout mother and her atheist daughter-in-law. In the sultry heat of the New York summer, tempers rise, and the family finds itself in the middle of a bitter feud which will have tragic consequences...
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About the Author
Brian Moore, whom Graham Greene called his ‘favourite living novelist’, was born in Belfast in 1921. He emigrated to Canada in 1948, where he became a journalist and adopted Canadian citizenship. He spent some time in New York before settling in California.
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