Review: A Wessex love story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 28, 2012
This is a classic. I first read this lovely book as a set book at school more than 50 years ago. I appreciated it far more this time around! But you have to work hard at Hardy's style of "Wessex" English to get the most out of it. I enjoyed the simple romantic plot involving the lady farmer, the farm worker, the soldier and the aristocrat farmer and the way it evolved. Hardy's way of turning sentences round to give another meaning is fascinating.