Angela Lamb, a British novelist, has sent her boisterous daughter Gerda to boarding school. Now she can fly to New York to pursue her passion for Woolf, whose manuscripts are in the private Berg Collection there. When a bedraggled-looking Virginia herself materializes in the library one day and is instantly evicted, a stunned Angela follows her heroine into the streets of Manhattan. As Virginia scams bookshops with 'rare signed editions', Angela is...

This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work. It covers the major works in detail, including 'To the Lighthouse', 'Mrs Dalloway', 'The Waves' and the key short stories.