So, despite the fact that I have had The Years on my tbr bookcase for about five years – I knew I would love it, and I did. Conventional is probably what I am most comfortable with, and despite my great love for To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway – Night and Day is probably my favourite of her novels. I still have many of her essays and some short stories to read. It was also the last of her novels I had to read. It was also the one which was the most popular and sold most widely during her lifetime – and along with Night and Day one of her more conventional novels. The Years was Virginia Woolf’s penultimate novel – the final one though to be published in her lifetime. “Slowly wheeling, like the rays of a searchlight, the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across the sky.” I have reviewed books by Virginia Woolf before on this blog, but it’s never an easy task – how to talk about a writer like Virginia Woolf? Is it the mark of a genius that we mere mortals struggle to find the right words – perhaps.
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