Norah Vincent

A reimagining of the events leading up to Virginia Woolf's 1941 self-drowning considers her relationship with fellow writers, her battles with mental illness and her conflicted feelings about her inner identity. By the best-selling author of Self-Made Man. 20,000 first printing.

A Novel of Virginia Woolf

Adeline

Daring . . . Vincent s psychological approach is intriguing. "USA Today" Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a mind s movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration, and as it fights before submitting to despair. Carlene Bauer, "New York Times Book Review" From a New York Times best-selling author, a boldly imagined portrait of Virginia Woolf that sheds new light on the events that preceded her fatal immersion in the River Ouse in 1941On April 18, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincent s "Adeline" reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist. With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Vincent channels Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, laying bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements andtheir failings, from the inside out.And haunting every page isAdeline, the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth, which becomes the source of Virginia sgreatest consolation, and hergreatest torment. Intellectually and emotionally disarming, "Adeline "a vibrant portrait ofWoolf and her social circle, the infamous Bloomsbury Group, and a window into the darkness that both inspired and doomed them all is a masterpiece in its own right by one of our most brilliant and daring writers. "

Emily Perkovich

This book was difficult for me. I wanted to love it because I relate so heavily to Virginia Woolf. This did a great job of dissecting the shadowy place that many creatives tend to live. There were many stand out lines. I enjoyed the joyed of other writers that were casually slipped in. But something just was not right for me. I had the most difficult time finishing this. I think there was too often no story propulsion, resulting in large gaps of scene and unnecessary dialogue to cover it. The best thing that came from this was that it made me want to read Woolf again, since it had been over a decade.

Adeline A Novel of Virginia Woolf

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