To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfRediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bringing with it war and death, and the summer

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described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightning

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to shame and depression

'We shall go on a journey

As he traces the cycles of life and nature

'Filled to the brim with advice

The nurses are reluctant to enter

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one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics

poet and philosopher John O'Donohue draws upon his Celtic heritage and the love of his native landscape