Book 78 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 8/10

Very accurate observations on relationships between man and wife involving two separate marriages. Jude meets his cousin Sue, the love of his life after being trapped in a marriage by a local girl. His pretentions to go to college and Sue's rather free thinking ideas about marriage lead him in the wrong direction. Hardy was criticised for his frank portrayal of his thoughts of how marriage didn't really work in the modern age and never wrote another novel after Jude. Some of the book is hard going and the end a rather depressing, but it is a good read.