Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Technique of Thomas Hardy
In T we on a T ower, we have a sense of unreality as we contemplate the series of unlucky accidents which prevent the happiness of the leading characters. That Swithin's great astronomical discovery should have been forestalled by about six weeks is quite on the cards for an aspirant to fame in science. That Sir Blount's death should have taken place really six weeks after Lady Constantine's remarriage, so rendering it void, begins to look like a malign arrangement of fate. That she should have learned of coming motherhood just too late to catch Swithin, somewhere out of reach in the Southern hemisphere, looks like an arrangement of the author's. And that she should die of joy at being kissed by her returned lover some years later, when there is no longer any bar to her felicity, is nothing short of persecution.
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