To the Lighthouse

Woolf’s groundbreaking novel is still one of the best available accounts of self-mythologising middle-class family life and its oppressive construction of male and female identity – Rachel Cusk
I reread this book every once in a while, and every time I do I find it more capacious and startling. It’s so revolutionary and so exquisitely wrought that it keeps evolving on its own somehow, as if it’s alive – Alison Bechdel
A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again. The metaphysics she presents in the book are enacted in a way that allowed me to begin to understand that corner of philosophy – Greta Gerwig
To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time
It is an elegy for lost times and family life * The Week *
Thrillingly introspective * The Independent *

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Virginia Woolf was born in London and became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists, and thinkers. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Her notable works, now considered masterpieces, include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

Anna Quindlen (Introducer)

Anna Quindlen is the author of three bestselling novels, Object Lessons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue, and three non-fiction books, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life. Her New York Times column ‘Public and Private’ won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. She is currently a columnist for Newsweek and lives with her husband and children in New York.

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