Karen Long, book editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, says reading Vanessa & Virginia inspired her to pull out the dog-eared copy of To the Lighthouse she had read in her youth.
If you ask me, that’s reason enough to read Susan Sellers’ new novel based on the intimate relationship between Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell. If the novel prompts a reader to reread Woolf, that is a very good thing.
Long has written a positive review of the book, which you can read here.
Sellers will be part of a plenary panel at Woolf and the City, the 19th International Conference on Virginia Woolf, and you can find out more about that here.
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[…] Susan Sellers, author of Vanessa and Virginia, the novel based on the relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, which is receiving rave reviews in the U.S. after its recent release, was also part of the Lanpher conversation. When she read a passage from her novel, I wasn’t sure what impressed me more — the words she read or the liltingly beautiful English accent with which she read them. Maybe it was the combination. […]