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But it's the central portrait of Vanessa's emotional life and her journey to a more disillusioned, if pragmatic, self-knowledge, that makes this novel, with its familiar setting, so fresh and compelling She has had the blessing of Vanessa Bell's granddaughter and daughter-in-law, and her research has been meticulous. A fresh perspective on a story that's already become legendĪ remarkable achievement. Works astonishingly well, each voice is real and fully realised, but Vanessa's is resplendent. She has caught the phantomĪ richly compelling and extraordinarily sympathetic portrait. Parmar gives truth and definition to the character of a woman whose nature was as elusive as her influence was profound. This novel explores the anguished relationship between the Stephen sisters and provides a new view of the artistic, sensual Bloomsbury world, placing Vanessa Bell at the heart of. Priya Parmar is a powerful new voice in historical fiction. Irrepressible, with charm and brio to spare.

As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must choose whether to protect Virginia's happiness or her own. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned.

Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Read more painter and Virginia, the writer. And at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the. There they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront.

'Prepare to be dazzled' Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife 'One of the essential reads of the year' The Times London, 1905.

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