To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time
Margaret Drabble
It is an elegy for lost times and family life
The Week
Thrillingly introspective
Katy Guest, The Independent
A little master piece... a brilliant evocation of consciousness, perception, loss and our relation to time
Helen Edmundson, Week
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.