Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize & Pen Faulkner prize Made into an Oscar-winning film The Hours' is a daring & deeply affecting novel inspired by the life & work of Virginia Woolf In 1920s London Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel A young wife & mother broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles yearns to escape & read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway' And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend Moving effortlessly across the decades & between England & America this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women