A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West.
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.
'I read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive
biography of my own life and future'
*Tilda Swinton*
A book that refuses all constraints: historical, fantastical,
metaphysical, sociological
*New Statesman*
A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and
wit
*The Times Literary Supplement*
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