

His birth was almost his death he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats.In the hands of Whitbread Award-winning biographer Claire Tomalin, author of the bestselling books Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, Thomas Hardy the novelist, poet, neglectful husband and mourning lover all come vividly alive. Tomalin is the most empathetic of biographers' Craig Brown, Mail on SundayParadox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. Thomas Hardy is the acclaimed biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin'An extraordinary story, beautifully told.
