Feb 21, 2017
Finished my book cover for my favourite book ever, Gone To Earth by Mary Webb!
Hazel is a creature of the earth, and a friend to all animals. She has a best friend who is a fox, whose fates are inextricably linked. She is "drawn relentlessly into the orbit of human life" - her innocence is irresistible to men - to Jack Reddin the local squire and cruel man, and to the gentle minister Edward Marston. Hazel is passionate but kind, and neither of these men satisfies both parts o...f her nature.
She is truly connected to other animals, and feels their suffering as if it were her own:
"She was of a race that will come in the far future, when we shall have outgrown our egoism - the brainless egoism of a little boy pullin off flies' wings"
