THE COUNTRY OF WESSEX
which includes Dorset is familiar to all Hardy fans.
Far From the Madding Crowd, perhaps his best-loved novel, has a sequel called Weatherbury Farm. Written as homage to Hardy, by a devoted fan, Patricia Dolling-Mann , the book is published by Xlibris.
The setting of the novel is Puddletown and its environs as in Hardy’s original novel.
In Far From the Madding Crowd we leave Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene newly-married. Now, many years on, Bathsheba’s husband and three almost grown-up children have superseded the three diverse suitors of her youth. Bathsheba’s caprice and wilfulness has been replaced with the trials and tribulations of family life. All three children reject the careers chosen for them by their parents to become evermore cosmopolitan in their lives and outlook.
As the children mature and need her less, Bathsheba becomes involved with Gabriel’s mission to improve the working and living conditions of agricultural labourers. She strives against prejudice to form a women’s movement to uphold and promote the rights of Union members’ wives. But as Industrialisation filters slowly into Hardy’s Victorian rural scenes, the Oak family find Wessex life is changing forever. Is this change for the better?
Review in The INDEPENDENT, 'OPEN EYE' magazine:
'An unputdownable novel'
Reader's comments:
'Seemed as if the characters picked up from where they left off quite naturally'
'Good Hardy and most enjoyable'
'enjoyed it immensely and found myself caught up in the story'
Why not join us in a tour of the places in the novel - just click on the place-names below-
Weatherbury Kingsbere Casterbridge Boscastle Budmouth Stourcastle Martinsham Hall
THE SEQUEL TO HARDY’S ‘TESS OF THE d’URBERVILLES’
Patricia Dolling-Mann’s sequel “The d’Urberville Inheritance’ published by Writers Club Press is now available in paperback from Amazon -line booksellers . Click on the book cover or here...
Patricia Dolling-
Want to read more about the Godwin family?
Read about Sarah and her quest to find her father in ‘A Claim to Kin’ published by Xlibris Corporation. Click on the book cover to be taken to Xlibris where you can read more about the book and a review...
See for yourself the stunning countryside of the book - Click Here
Read about Sarah and her quest to find her father in ‘A Claim to Kin’ published by Xlibris Corporation. Click on the book cover to be taken to Xlibris where you can read more about the book and a review...
See for yourself the stunning countryside of the book -
Interested in Victorian Times and/or Time Travel?
Why not read ‘Flashback’ by Gordon Mann - a story of love and infidelity across two centuries. You can buy it now from Amazon - simply Click Here... For more details about the book click on the book cover.
Why not read ‘Flashback’ by Gordon Mann -
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