To The Lighthouse

(Vintage Voyages)

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The lighthouse waits across the bay.

Between the promise and the journey lies the whole fragile life of a family.

Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The house is full of conversation, expectation, private irritation and small acts of tenderness. Yet the promised trip to the lighthouse does not take place.

Time passes, bringing war and death, and the summer home stands empty. Years later, the family return, altered by loss, to make the long-postponed visit.

This is Woolf at her most luminous and exacting, transforming domestic life into something vast. The novel’s power lies in the spaces between people: what they say, what they cannot say and what time allows them to understand too late.

VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind.

To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time
Margaret Drabble

About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

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