Vanessa and her sister

Resource Information

The work Vanessa and her sister represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Vanessa and her sister

Statement of responsibility

Priya Parmar

Creator

• Parmar, Priya, 1974-

Author

• Parmar, Priya, 1974-

Subject

• Bloomsbury (London, England) -- Fiction
• Bloomsbury group -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction
• London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Romance fiction
• Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961 -- Fiction
• Women artists -- England -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Fiction
• Sisters -- Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Romance fiction
• Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

London, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. And at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter and Virginia, the writer. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must choose whether to protect Virginia's happiness or her own

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult