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He would like to call up Thomas Hardy, because he has a nice feeling about Eustacia Vye.

She wasn't too sexy or anything, but even so you can't help wondering what a nun maybe thinks about when she reads about old Eustacia.

In the opening chapters, Eustacia Vye, the restless and bewitching “Queen of Night,” presides over the final bonfire of the evening, with which she hopes to draw a former lover, Damon Wildeve, away from his marriage to another.

A year later to the day, with her own marriage to the earnest Clym Yeobright in trouble, another fire draws Eustacia and Damon together again and sets off the chain of events through which, in their restlessness, they will be destroyed.

Eustacia Vye is one of Thomas Hardy's most charismatic heroines – I'll never forget his description of her winter-dark hair, and how when it caught in thorn bushes on the heath, she would retrace her steps and pass against the branches a second time, purely to repeat the sensation.