The Chosen E Is a Novel by Elizabeth Hardy

The chosen e is a fictional, but essentially true impression of the days immediately following the death of thomas hardy's first wife, emma. She acted as his copyist and daily support, not least in writing tess,. But their marriage has long been soured by his success and self absorption. He discovers a set of diaries that she had secretly kept about their life together - ominously titled 'what i think of my husband' And we follow him through the next ten, 11 days as he comes to terms with the past and and puts it back together.