
Publisher: William Collins
Author: Paula Byrne
ISBN: 9780008322250
Format: Hardback
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In his novels Thomas Hardy created some of literature’s most memorable and enduring female characters but his relationship with the women in his own life was vexed and complicated. Byrne uses recently discovered documents, including letters from Hardy’s second wife, Florence, to re-examine stories told by many women who knew him, to explore how their troubled lives inspired his imagination and to read his work from their point of view.