The Chosen

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Who pays the price of a writer's fameOne Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom,.Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms she is gone.In the aftermath of his shattering loss he comes across a set of diaries that Emma had secretly kept about their life together and he truly discovers what she had truly felt about their marriage.By turns tender,surprising, comic and true The Chosen hauntingly searches the unknowable spaces between man and wife and regret, life and art.