I wasn't overly impressed by the film for this, but it was on my challenge list for both the Pulitzer prize and the 1001 list so I thought I had better give the book a go, and it was so much better, much more rounded.
The book spans across the day in the life of three women, each at a different point in history.
Virginia Woolf, in London in 1927, trying to start writing Mrs Dallloway, but also struggling with the pressures of depression and a desire to just slip away from this world.
Mrs Brown, in America in 1949, a housewife with the perfect little family, but they just don't satisfy her. She wants to escape, to a different life, to the book Mrs Dalooway, and also contemplates commiting suicide.
And Clarrisa, nick named Mrs Dalloway, who is preparing a party for her dying friend in modern day New York.
All the women are feeling seperated from life in some way, and suicide comes up a lot. Not agood novel for if you are having a bad day!
Challenges:
20th century Reads: 1999
Book Awards 2 2/10
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