Celebrate a captivating novel with this limited run special edition featuring the original cover created by Virginia Woolf''s sister, Vanessa Bell, and the original text first published by The Hogarth Press. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. Holidays of noise, joy and bruised emotions: the stuff of everyday family life that might go on forever. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse. ''My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again'' Greta Gerwig ''Woolf''s groundbreaking novel is still one of the best available accounts of self-mythologising middle-class family life'' Rachel Cusk ''I reread this book every once in a while, and every time I do I find it more capacious and startling. It''s so revolutionary and so exquisitely wrought that it keeps evolving on its own somehow, as if it''s alive'' Alison Bechdel

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.