Hardy Women

Reviews

EARLY PRAISE FOR HARDY WOMEN ‘Absorbing… a treat for Hardy fans and unhappy wives’ The Times ‘Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy created some of literature’s most enduring female characters … but it is the real women who shaped the life of the tortured genius that a book vividly reanimates’ Independent 'Magnificent… a masterful storyteller and meticulous researcher, Byrne shows us how the women in Hardy's work are based on the women in his life. But she does so with the delicacy of a hummingbird, darting from point to point, suggesting but never concluding' Washington Post 'By turns infuriating and inspiring, but always fascinating, this page-turner of a book offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of Victorian Britain’s most famous writers' Gareth Russell, author of The Palace ‘A fascinating re-examination of the life of Thomas Hardy through the eyes of the women who profoundly influenced him-his mother, his sisters, girlfriends, wives and muses. Drawing on access to some neverbefore-seen passages in Hardy's journals, she shows that it is through these hardy women that we can truly appreciate his much-loved works’ The Bookseller, Editor’s Choice Expand reviews