''I Am Mary Dunne'' is a

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

, first published in 1968, by Northern Irish- Canadian writer Brian Moore about one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright. Triggered by seemingly unimportant occurrences, the

protagonist A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a st ...

/ first person narrator remembers her past in a series of flashbacks, which reveal her insecurities, her bad conscience concerning her first two husbands, and her fear that she is on the brink of insanity. ''I Am Mary Dunne'' has been described as "perhaps rian Moore'sbest book". Robert Fulford, writing in Canada's ''

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'', calls it " feminist novel written before the wave of feminist novels began". In its original draft, ''I Am Mary Dunne'' was called ''A Woman of No Identity''.

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