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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
1927
Woolf’s fifth novel is set mainly across two days, 10 years apart – either side of the first world war – and slips between the perspectives of the Ramsay family and their guests at their summer house on the Isle of Skye, drawing on the writer’s memories of childhood holidays at Talland House in St Ives, Cornwall. Woolf herself described it as “easily the best” of her books. Her sister, the artist Vanessa Bell, designed the original dust jacket.
First sentence
“Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” said Mrs Ramsay. “But you’ll have to be up with the lark.”
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