Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, MusesA Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones 'He understands only the women he invents the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships

how to transform inevitable failures into endless opportunities

000 personal letters—shaped his identity and legacy

who have supported him every step of the way

We all face obstacles-physical

and passed out cold on the floor after smelling something foul

Modern Times Revised Edition is a monumental work of modern history that challenges our understanding of a century shaped by gangster-statesmen and secular ideologies

This is a memoir like no other

and the haunted woman who emerges from the wreckage of his past will have fateful results for all

and speaks ill of Hal

and very dirty construction site

Though he will give her whatever her heart desires—jewels

award-winning author of Ancestor Approved and Sisters of the Neversea