Hardys Britain

Gyles Brandreth explores the landscape that influenced Thomas Hardy The author spent most of his life in the southwest of England and set his most famous novels Tess of the DUrbervilles The Mayor of Casterbridge Jude the Obscure and his breakthrough novel Far from the Madding Crowd in the fictional county of Wessex By inviting input from experts and celebrity fans Gyles discovers that although Wessex may be fictional the locations Hardy describes are influenced by real places