First appearing in "The Guardian" in 2005, the "Tamara Drewe" comic strip was based on which novel?

"Far from the Madding Crowd" (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in "Cornhill Magazine", where it gained a wide readership.

The novel is set in Thomas Hardy's Wessex in rural southwest England, as had been his earlier "Under the Greenwood Tree". It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It describes the life and relationships of Bathsheba Everdene with her lonely neighbour William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant 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" Review section. The strip, a modern reworking of the novel, was itself adapted into a film, "Tamara Drewe" (2010), directed by Stephen Frears.