Fiction finalist 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards Who owns us when we're gone? Thomas Hardy's friends and family fight over his legacy (and mortal remains). 'Lyrical... beautifully crafted' New Zealand Herald The story of Thomas Hardy's death told by his housemaid Nellie. 1928. As Thomas Hardy lies on his death bed at his Dorset home, Max Gate, a tug-of-war is taking...