Mrs Dalloway

Novel (1925) by Virginia Woolf. Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged ‘society woman’, drifts through a summer's day in London, preparing for the party she is to give that evening. A visit from a former suitor deepens her reflections, which combine many elements of past and present. At various points, her life, and those of her friends and family, interweave unknowingly with that of Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked young man who is going mad.