Thomas Hardy

In Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses, Paula wrote a highly innovative life of the great novelist and poet: seeing him through the eyes of the women who made him, the women he loved and those he lost, and the magnificent female characters in his novels. For The Times it was “a treat for Hardy fans and unhappy wives”; for Country Life, “Dazzlingly detailed and illuminating … beautifully observed”; and The Independent said that “it is the real women who shaped the life of the tortured genius that this book vividly reanimates.”

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