"The street outside was a university bywater, once a good residential area, which had lately been reduced to the level of taking in paying guests. Miss Hearne stared at the houses opposite and thought of her aunt's day when there were only private families in this street, at least one maid to every house, and dinner was at night, not at noon. All gone now, all those people dead and all the houses partitioned off into flats, the bedrooms cut in two, kitchenettes jammed into linen closets, linoleum on the floors and 'To Let' cards in the the s."
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Fantasy authorsPeople from BelfastJournalists from Northern IrelandNovelists from Northern IrelandScreenwriters from Northern Ireland
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Brian Moore (novelist)
(25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999) was a , short story writer, , and , born in a large Roman Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He became in 1948 an immigrant in Canada and acquired Canadian citizenship. In 1959 he moved to the United States. For 15 years he taught creative writing at UCLA. His ' won the 1975 . His acclaimed novel ' (1955, ) was made into 's 1987 film ', starring Maggie Smith and .
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