To the Lighthouse

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever.In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of adult relationships. From an acute awareness of transcience, she creates an enduring work of art.

Set in

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  Isle of Skye · United Kingdom

  Ramsay summer house setting
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• St Ives · United Kingdom

  Woolf childhood lighthouse view
• Godrevy Lighthouse · United Kingdom

  real lighthouse Woolf watched from Talland House as a child; author-confirmed model for the novel's title lighthouse des