Book description
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her
future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic
poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As
she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights
activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, struggling to weave
together the documents, events and memories of her father's life into a
biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences.
Virginia Woolf's light, delicate second novel is both a love story and a
social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions,
questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience. Virginia
Woolf (1882-1941) is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author,
a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a
feminist and a modernist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in
1915. Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), Orlando (1928), The
Waves (1931), The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).
