More evidence f the harm done by forcing school children to read books beyond them and so bore them half to death was The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy. I hated it. All those trees rubbing themselves into wounds and whatnot. Had no idea what he was on about. Our trees are miles apart and don't rub each other in that way. What was a school boy to make of the evils of bad marriages and all that?
Read the book again as an adult post divorce and thought it was fantastic. A fine institution divorce.
