Winter – Christopher Nicholson

Winter

A November morning in the 1920s finds an elderly man walking the grounds of his Dorchester home, pondering his past and future with deep despondence. That man is the revered novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and this is a fictionalized account of his final years ( Fourth Estate, 2014)

Author

Christopher Nicholson is a writer, living in England. His two earlier novels are The Fattest Man In America (2005) and The Elephant Keeper (2009). He has two children, a son and a daughter. For the past twenty-five years he has lived in the countryside on the border between Wiltshire and Dorset.

Discussed November 12, 2017
Book suggested by Dick M.