To the Lighthouse

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A pioneering work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse uses her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters. The novel is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, expecting these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence. At the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values. 'Bears endless re-reading ... the sea encircles the story in a brilliant ebb and flow' — Rachel Billington