Dr Andrew Norman

Synopsis:

Thomas Hardy was shy to a fault. He surrounded his house with a dense screen of trees; he took immense pains to disguise the true identities of the characters in his novels and the places which they frequented; and in his later years he destroyed not only his diaries, notebooks and letters, but also those of his first wife Emma. The purpose of this book is to pierce the veil of secrecy which Hardy deliberatley drew over his private life, and thereby discover the true Hardy - the man behind the inscrutable smile! 'YOU HAVE DECRIBED THE HARDY I KNEW' - NORRIE WOODALL, SISTER OF GERTRUDE BUGLER AND ACQUAINTANCE OF HARDY. 'THE GREAT MAN'S LIFE WAS EQUAL IN TENSION TO ANYTHING TO BE FOUND IN HIS NOVELS' - THIS ENGLAND.