Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
by Francesca Wade
☆ Longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Square Haunting is a group biography of five writers, who happened to live in the same square in London, though not together or necessarily at the same time. The title is based on a 1925 diary entry by Virginia Woolf (one of the five writers covered): “I like this London life in early summer, the street-sauntering and square-haunting.”
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