Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses Jonathan Gould and looks to the future

and looks to the future with a new hope and optimism

Born into wealth and privilege

teaching you how to identify these species out in the wild

urgent and provocative

this book will appeal to home gardeners who want to branch out to culinary and medicinal herbs

Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses Jonathan Gould and looks to the futureA 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