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Hello, in 1922, Virginia Wolf began work on a novel which many now see as her masterpiece.

She called it the hours and in her diary she gave some indication of her ambition

for the book. I want to give life and death sanity and insanity, she wrote. I want to criticize

the social system and to share it at work at its most intense. It was under a

different title that the book eventually saw the light of day three years later.

It's named after its central character Mrs. Delaware, a wealthy woman at the heart of 1920's London society and

charts a single day in her life as she prepares to host a party. It's a richly

inventive novel which deals sensitively with mental illness and the scars of the First World War, and

nine years after it was published, Mrs. Delaware is now seen as one of the most

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