All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth

All the Lives We Ever Lived, Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it.

Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death - a calamity that claimed her favourite person - she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief.

Smyth's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us towards a new vision of Woolf's most demanding and rewarding novel - and crafts an elegant reminder of literature's ability to clarify and console.

Braiding memoir, literary criticism and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author

Book Information:
 
Format: Paperback

Published: 31/03/2020

Genre: Memoir, Biography, Literary Criticism

Pages: 336

Dimensions: 198 x 129mm

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