Below is an extract from the review of the latest biography of Thomas Hardy.

Thomas Hardy was notoriously inscrutable. Obsessively private and unforthcoming, he took pains to control his public image and protect his legacy from prying eyes and wagging tongues. Such letters and notebooks as survived his death are, with precious few exceptions, ones that Hardy wanted to survive. He even ghosted his own biography; once attributed to his second wife Florence (nee Dugdale), The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy was substantially written by Hardy himself.

Full review of this latest work on Hardy.