The Lover
In case you hadn't noticed (which I think is rather unlikely), it is St Valentine's Day today. The shops are (and have been for about a fortnight) filled to overflowing with reminders of love and romance. It's not surprising, therefore, that the second episode of Faulks on Fiction which aired this weekend was about 'The Lover'. At the beginning of the programme, Faulks says that, "Romantic fiction gives us happy endings but the reality is rarely like that." He goes on to say how 'psychological' novels have approached love as a more complex animal which is probably nearer the truth. His lovers were: Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Heathcliffe and Cathy from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights , Tess from Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy, Connie Chatterley and Mellors from D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover , Maurice Bendrix and Sarah from The End of the Affair by Graham Gr...