Author:Virginia Woolf,Julia Briggs
'Woolf's pivotal novel ... the writer feels her way into becoming the giantess she would be' Paris Review
Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience. Its protagonist, Katharine Hilbery, is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she tries to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, struggling with the weight of history - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Briggs
The best debut novel I have ever read... sexy, seriously shocking and touched with genius
—— Julie BurchillA bracing debut that sizzles with sexual and racial tension... Brilliant... A terrific book
—— Daily TelegraphCompletely scabrous and immensely readable
—— Evening StandardAccomplished... Witty, insightful... Beautifully written
—— The TimesBrilliantly paced, sexy and hilarious... An awesome bebut... I can't wait for his second novel
—— Big IssueFresh, funny and convincing
—— Mail on SundayAngry, moving, urgent
—— Times Literary SupplementOne of my favourite books of the year...This is going to be huge...I loved it
—— Sarah Broadhurst , The BooksellerAn enjoyably bumptious coming of age novel
—— Richard Godwin , Literary ReviewTolerant, funny and real, [the narrator] ducks and dives hedonistically, lazily, gunning out x-ray observations about masculinity, models and "the magic of miscegenation" that would have had Oscar Wilde licking his lips
—— Vogue'Highly coloured, linguistically inventive...Evans has a powerful and often beguiling imagination'
—— Daily Telegraph'Sensual and poetic, as well as powerful and uncompromising...A mature, compelling and beautiful first novel'
—— Times Literary Supplement'The writing is both mature and freshly perceptive, creating not only a warmly funny novel of a Neasden childhood - with its engaging minutiae of flapjacks and icepops, lip gloss and daisy hairclips - but a haunting account of the loss of innocence and mental disintegration.'
—— Maya Jaggi , Guardian
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