The French Lieutenant's Woman

Inspired by Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, John Fowles novel describes the relationship between the engaged Charles Smithson and a beautiful, disgraced woman who stands enigmatically gazing out to sea at the end of the pier in Lyme Regis in Dorset. A fascinating, evocative recreation of 19th century society which deals with Victorian issues of gender and morality.