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“When all is said and done, I think it is her greatest novel.I find it still, every single time I read it—and I must have read it more than any other book in my reading life—very moving, tremendously impressive, extremely complicated and interesting in how it’s put together, and approachable in many different kinds of ways. It’s approachable as a love story, as a family story, as a ghost story, as an elegy for the nineteenth century, as a war novel—in an indirect and interesting way—and as an astonishingly ambitious experiment in a completely different way of writing fiction.” Read more...
Hermione Lee, Biographer
“Aristotle tells us that all politics starts in the family, and you really do see that in To the Lighthouse.” Read more...
Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature
Deborah Levy, Novelist