Vanessa and Her Sister

Priya Parmar

Ballantine Books

2015

384 páginas

12h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780804176392

For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the controversial and popular circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group.

In 1905, Virginia and Vanessa Stephens and their brothers Thoby and Adrian moved to unfashionable, bohemian Bloomsbury. All in their twenties, orphaned and unmarried, they began holding Thursday night gatherings in their unchaperoned, unconventional drawing room. Most of the young guests in that room would become famous, breaking the old rules and blazing their own new paths. It is from Vanessa’s point of view at the center of this eccentric, charmed circle of artists and intellectuals that this novel is told, charting with unsparing honesty their friendships, love affairs, and in particular her own troubled relationship with her complicated, brilliant sister Virginia. The work of exciting young newcomer Priya Parmar, the novel exquisitely captures the champagne-heady days of prewar London and the extraordinary lives of Vanessa and her sister.