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This is classic Virginia Woolf. It is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. As the book progresses, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old. The book highlights themes of isolation and community, written in Woolf’s characteristic stream-of-consciousness storytelling. Every scene closely tracks the momentary thoughts of a particular character, and Woolf blurs the distinction between direct and indirect speech throughout the novel. This is a great book to settle into for an afternoon and lose yourself in another world and other minds.
