Author:Thomas Hardy,Claire Tomalin
Thomas Hardy wrote some of the most moving and personal poems in his era and this collection brings together the best of his verse on life and love.
Hardy's poems are by turn haunting, intense, songlike humerous and tender. From snatched lovers' meetings to the wreck of the Titanic from the death of a Dorest drummer boy in the Boer War to memories of his dead wife Emma, from ghosts, loss and longing to pleasure in landscape and weather, they tell the story of one of our best-loved writers, and the people and places that inspired him.
Even more irrepressible than usual
—— Independent on SundayShe is a story-teller who knows her craft
—— SpectatorCrammed with the little intimacies that make Wesley's novels so appealing
—— Sunday TimesIt is Wesley's great strength that she makes us interested in every single person she creates
—— Maeve Binchy , Mail on SundayI have read Maupin's first two books three times already and shall probably read them again before too long. I love them for very much the same qualities that make me love the novels of Dickens
—— Christopher Isherwood[Maupin] is the perfect chronicler of the moral, political, sexual and social fluxes of the world as we have lived and known them... Not only is all human life here but a hell of a lot besides that you'd never imagine
—— City LimitsMaupin's work is like a drug: it's easy, it's fun and it leaves you greedy for more...superb
—— The AustralianFab and funny ... Anyone with a sister will be nodding their head the whole way through
—— CloserAnna Maxted tells a tale of sibling rivalry with wit and emotion
—— InStyleWarm, poignant and very funny
—— Marian KeyesHugely funny. Maxted writes beautifully
—— Daily ExpressThis modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world
—— Sunday Sport