Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable and James Tissot. The daughter of a railway millionaire buys a Norman castle and cannot decide anything — church or chapel, one suitor or the other — while a young architect restores her battlements and a photographer forges a picture. Hardy trained as an architect and dictated much of this from bed during a near-fatal illness; it is his novel about the new money meeting the old stones, and about a woman who is lukewarm on principle. Fifty-eight plates, from Constable's Hadleigh Castle and Stour valley to Munch's women, echo a story of old stones and wavering hearts.