The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy Audio Book

The story of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, as two rivals, Giles Winterborne and Dr Edred Fitzpiers, compete for the hand of Grace Melbury.

Set in the beautiful Blackmoor Vale, ‘The Woodlanders’ concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-to-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of the dashing and dissolute doctor, Edred Fitzpiers. When the mysterious Mrs Charmond further complicates the romantic entanglements, marital choice and class mobility become inextricably linked.

Hardy’s powerful novel depicts individuals in thrall to desire and the natural law that motivates them.