' Food, for me, is a constant pleasure. I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it... it provides
... Night chills are seizing the men & women of Black River, driving them to terrible acts.
Glenn drove the Land Rover

Woolf's second novel paints a picture of the London intelligentsia before World War I. It portrays the author's sister Vanessa in the character of Katherine Hilbery, the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family who is trapped in a stifling environment & unable to express herself.