In a pale November dawn the elderly Thomas
Hardy walks in his garden, his beloved terrier
at his heels. Within the shadows of the house
sits his lonely middle-aged wife, Florence.
An actress in an amateur production of Tess
Both await the visit of Gertie, the leading
the D 'Urbervilles. But the arrival of this
beautiful and ambitious young woman
threatens the equilibrium of their
reclusive life in the countryside.
In this delicately wrought novel set in
the 1920s, inspired by the first English
production of Tess, Christopher Nicholson
presents three impassioned characters at
a critical moment in their lives. A subtle
psychological portrait of a great writer in the
depths of old age, Winter is also a
profound examination of love and desire, and their attendant hopes and disappointments.

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