Lolly Willowes
$25.84
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2020
Summary
Townsend Warner’s best-loved and most famous novel, telling the story of a middle-aged woman who gloriously becomes a witch.
Lolly Willowes, always so gentle and accommodating, suddenly announces that she is moving, alone, to the countryside. To her overbearing family in London, it is a disturbing and inexplicable act of defiance. But Lolly will not be swayed, and in the depths of the English countryside she gradually discovers not only freedom and independence, but also, unexpectedly…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241454886 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241454883 |
| Author: | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A great shout of life and individuality.
A great shout of life and individuality. – Justine Jordan * Guardian *
The book I’ll be pressing into people’s hands forever is Lolly Willowes […] Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness – Helen Macdonald * The New York Times Book Review *
Sylvia Townsend Warner moves with sombre confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it – John Updike
My comfort read – Tracey Thorn
About The Author
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr Fortune’s Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them and The Flint Anchor.
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