Woman much missed: The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry
Join Elizabeth as she talks about the Hardys’ marriage, the people and places in her novel ‘The Chosen’, and the challenges of reimagining the past.
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Join Elizabeth as she talks about the Hardys’ marriage, the people and places in her novel ‘The Chosen’, and the challenges of reimagining the past.
The Chosen is Elizabeth Lowry’s acclaimed new novel about the days immediately following the death of Thomas Hardy’s first wife Emma in 1912, and of Hardy’s writing of Tess of the d’Urbervilles some twenty years earlier. A love story and a ghost story set in the landscape of Hardy’s Wessex, it’s also the story of how some of the greatest love poems in English, the ‘Poems of 1912–13’, came to exist.
Elizabeth Lowry is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Her second novel, Dark Water, was longlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Elizabeth lives and works in Oxford.
The Chosen was a Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2022 choice.
‘Delicate, finely judged and full of insight’ – Hilary Mantel
To read more, please visit Elizabeth’s website.
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The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!