Tag: Thomas Hardy

  • Done

    That is it. I am done with Hardy … Thomas that is. I was tempted back to my teenage enjoyment of the Hardy novels by loving the writing of David Nicholls. And, as had been said before, he is consumed by this late Victorian writer. I was looking up the ‘Tess’ quote that Nicholls uses […]

  • April 2024

    So this book was a bestseller in 2009. It is back in the windows of bookshops now because of a new Netflix series, closely based on this story. Every newspaper, journal and magazine I have read of late has had excited reviewers waxing lyrical about everything David Nicholls. I understand the buzz and the enthusiasm. […]