Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a June morning in 1923 to buy flowers for her party, while an old love returns and a shell-shocked veteran crosses the same city

Classics
Atmospheric
Melancholic
Big city
Mental health
Multiple POV
Slow & immersive
Short read

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