Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, MusesA Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones 'He understands only the women he invents the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships