
Fiction finalist 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards Who owns us when we're gone? Thomas Hardy's friends and family fight over his legacy (and mortal remains). 'Lyrical... beautifully crafted' New Zealand Herald The...

It is 1928 and the world's most famous novelist, Thomas Hardy, is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset. Downstairs, his high-powered literary friends are becoming locked in a bitter fight with local supporters. Who owns Hardy's remains?...