Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf (Audiobook)

from Beamis12

If someone had told me when I first started reading this novel that I would end of giving it five stars, I would have thought they were crazy. I had a hard time in the beginning but then I realized that this was a book that once you got into the rhythm of the prose you just needed to keep reading...

from knittingmomof3

Adeline by Norah Vincent is an exceptional account of Virginia Woolf's life from 1925 up to the events leading to her suicide in 1941, including the vibrant social circle she was apart of, known as the Bloomsbury Group, allowing the readers not only a look within the mind of Virginia Woolf, but a...

from starbox

Utterly superb recreation of moments in the life of Virginia Woolf; Written in an enfolding stream-of-consciousness style, reminiscent of Woolf's own work, it explores her relationships with husband Leonard, her sister and various literary friends.The struggle to express the human experience in w...

from adpaton

Adeline, by Norah Vincent, Virago, 2015 You don't have to like Virginia Woolf or the Bloomsbury Group to be enthralled by this fictional biography delivered in an elegant pastiche of Woolf's own style. The book follows her from 1925 to her 1941 suicide as she drifts through books and lovers, shel...

from lauriebrown54

Adeline was Virginia Stephen's given first name, but as it was her dead aunt's name, it hurt her mother too much to use it. So she was Virginia from the start. In this novelized biography of the last fifteen years of Woolf's life, Adeline exists inside Virginia her whole life as a separate person...