In Virgnia Woolf's novel - which inspired the 2003 film "The Hours" - Mrs Dalloway is an assured socialite. Yet as she prepares for her party on a hot London day in June 1923, she feels the terror of existence and the pull of death.
'The Waves' (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. Afterword by Sam Gilpin.