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A great biographer ’ Carole Angier, Literary Review  \n‘Perceptive and intelligent. Tomalin brings time and place and people tenaciously alive ’ Alan Taylor, Sunday Herald  \n‘Scrupulous and luminous biography’ Chicago Tribune  \n‘Excellent…high-and fair-minded, authoritative ’ Caroline Moore, Sunday Telegraph‘A splendid picture of Hardy’ Raymond Carr, Spectator  \n‘A fascinating insight into the great Victorian novelist and poet’s life ’ Harper s’ Bazaar‘Sparky, compelling, immediately gripping’ Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times  \n‘Tomalin’s biography…allows the reader to muse on the relationship between life and fiction, between poetry and the novel. One returns to Thomas Hardy with renewed pleasure and surprise ’ Tim Parks, New York Review ofBooks  \n‘Fresh eyes and vivacious prose ’ John Sutherland, Evening Standard  \n‘Exemplary…written with clarity and understanding. It is, in short, a triumph’ Tatler  \n‘Tomalin’s special gift as a biographer is her engaged concern for the people she writes about’ John Carey, Sunday Times  \n‘Sure-footed and compassionate ’ Dinah Birch, Independent‘One of the country’s finest biographers ’ Book  \n‘Tomalin’s insights are always rewarding’ John Burnside, The Times  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR  \nClaire Tomalin worked in publishing and journalism for many years. She was literary editor first of the New Statesman and then the Sunday Times , before devoting herself to writing full time. She is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies: The Life and Death ofMary Wollstonecraft , which won the Whitbread First Book Award; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life ; The Invisible Woman: The Story ofNelly Ternan and Charles Dickens , which won the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography; Mrs Jordan s’ Profession; Jane Austen: ALife ; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self , which was the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man; and, most recently, Charles Dickens: ALife.  \nShe lives in London with her husband, the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.  \nBy the same author  \nThe Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and His World Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternanand Charles Dickens The Winter Wife Mrs Jordan’s Profession Jane Austen: A Life  \nSeveral Strangers: Writing from Three Decades Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self  \nIllustrations  \nFIRST INSET  \n1. The view of Dorchester that Hardy knew from his earliest years  \n2. Hardy’s drawing of his birthplace at Higher Bockhampton, which shows it as it was in the 1890s  \n3. and 4. Hardy’s parents in old age  \n5. Melbury House, the seat of the Earls of Ilchester  \n6. Stinsford House, near Bockhampton  \n7. Hardy’s first school at Lower Bockhampton  \n8. The Revd Moule and his family on the lawn in front of his Fordington vicarage  \n9. Horace Moule, Hardy’s great friend and mentor  \n10. Hardy at nineteen, when he was an architectural pupil in Dorchester  \n11. 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