Mrs Dalloway

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VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames' In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

A beautiful ode to dignity, memory and survival * Sunday Times *