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Vanessa and Virginia

by Susan Sellers

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Vanessa and Virginia

In a gloomy house in Hyde Park Gate, two young girls are raised to be perfect ladies. But from the beginning Vanessa Bell and her sister Virginia Woolf pursue different dreams, and in their Bloomsbury household they create a ferment of free thinking and even freer living. Devoted to each other, yet fiercely competitive, both sisters fight to realise their artistic vision amidst a chaos of desire, scandal, illness and war. Traced with lyrical intensity, their intertwined lives gradually reveal an underlying pattern. Only at the end of this fascinating work does the real nature of the relationship between Virginia and Vanessa become clear.Susan Sellers' novel reveals a dramatic new interpretation of one of the most famous and iconic events in twentieth-century literature - Woolf's suicide by drowning - as the two sisters' life-long rivalry reaches its final crisis. An expert on Woolf's life and work, Susan Sellers is inspired by Woolf's own brilliant narrative technique - a sensuous, impressionistic, interior voice - to inhabit the mind of an artist at work, and recreate the tale of the two sisters as Vanessa might have told it. Vanessa and Virginia is a chronicle of love and revenge, madness, genius, and the compulsion to create beauty in the face of relentless difficulty and deep grief.

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  • 5 out of 5
    A wonderfully told tale of two sisters

    A wonderfully inventive and refreshing take on the complicated relationship between the painter Vanessa Bell and her famous sister, Virginia Woolf. Told entirely from Vanessa's point of view, this is a beautifully poetic, heart-rending novel about family, friends, lovers and the difficult joys of an artistic life. Whether or not you now about the "real" events behind this book, the story it has to tell is truly compelling and very moving.

    Review by Abi Fisher on 23:07, 12 Nov 2008

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  • 5 out of 5
    A compelling read!

    I though this was very compelling novel. The story definitely draws you in, and I liked the way it was made up of lots of short scenes so that it reads a bit like the way the character Vanessa Bell paints her pictures. Virginia Woolf is seen mostly in the background, just out of reach, which really adds to the atmosphere of the book. Like quite a few people, I already kind of knew the basics of the story, but even so I still wanted to keep reading to see what was going to "happen". I read most of it in one go: once I got so far, I couldn't stop till I'd reached the end!

    Review by Chris D on 17:33, 14 Nov 2008

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ISBN

9781906120276

Published
May 30th 2008 by Two Ravens Press
Category
Modern Fiction
Number of pages
256
County of origin
UNITED KINGDOM
Dimensions
216 x 138