Far from the Madding Crowd a 1980s/90s boarding school in the UK countryside (published January 2019). The novel was adapted by Graham White in 2012 into a three-part series on BBC Radio 4's "Classic Serial". The production was directed by Jessica Dromgoole and featured Alex Tregear as Bathsheba, Shaun Dooley as Gabriel, Toby Jones as Boldwood and Patrick Kennedy as Troy. The novel was adapted by Posy Simmonds into "Tamara Drewe", weekly comic strip that ran from September 2005 to October 2006 in "The Guardian"s Review section. The strip, a modern reworking of the novel, was itself adapted into a film, "Tamara Drewe" (2010), directed
Far from the Madding Crowd gives notice that he is leaving her employ, she realises how important he has become to her well-being. That night, she goes alone to visit him in his cottage, to find out why he is deserting her. Pressed, he reluctantly reveals that it is because people have been injuring her good name by gossiping that he wants to marry her. She exclaims that it is "... too absurd – too soon – to think of, by far!" He bitterly agrees that it is absurd, but when she corrects him, saying that it is only "too soon", he is emboldened to