The Hours - Cunningham, Michael

Paperback. English. Fourth Estate. 1999. In fair condition.

In 1920's London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940's Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughn steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990's New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend. 'The Hours' recasts the classic story of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women.