Jude the Obscure Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2005) a university professor full of

a university professor full of revolutionary zeal

Rowling's first novel for adults

her two marriages

In this beautifully imagined novel

Jude the Obscure Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2005) a university professor full ofIm an outsider to the end of my days!Jude Fawleys hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking New Woman. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but