Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor born on the stony peninsula Hardy calls the Isle of Slingers, believes his ideal of beauty passes from one woman to another. At twenty, forty and sixty he finds it again in a woman of the same island family, grandmother, mother and daughter, while he grows older and they do not.
Hardy’s last novel, a strange and ironic fable of desire that rewards readers who know his greater books. Download the free EPUB.