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Lolly Willowes
Reader Score
74%
74% of readers
recommend this book
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. A Penguin Classics Hardcover Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: Nov 12nd, 2024
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.40in - 4.50in - 0.80in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780241573785
- Categories: • Women• Literary• Family Life - General
About the Author
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner, Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr. Fortune's Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them, and The Flint Anchor. Coralie Bickford-Smith (cover illustrator) is an award-winning designer at Penguin Books, where she has created several highly acclaimed series designs. She studied typography at Reading University and lives in London.
Praise for this book
A great shout of life and individuality.--Justine Jordan, Guardian The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is Lolly Willowes [. . .] Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness--Helen Macdonald, The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Townsend Warner moves with sombre confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it--John Updike My comfort read--Tracey Thorn