The Mayor of Casterbridge Bestseller “Davis has written a beautiful

“Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page

but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece

and parking in handicap spots at the mall

her family never saw any of the profits

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy

The Mayor of Casterbridge Bestseller “Davis has written a beautifulIn a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self destructive pride and temper. Subtitled "A Story of a Man of Character," The Mayor of