Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel

Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel

A New York Times Notable Book â€¢ An Entertainment Weekly â€œMust Listâ€ Pick â€¢Â â€œPrepare to be dazzled.â€â€”Paula McLain â€¢Â â€œQuite simply astonishing.â€â€”Sarah Blake

What if Virginia Woolfâ€™s sister had kept a diary? For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a spellbinding new story of the inseparable bond between Virginia and her sister, the gifted painter Vanessa Bell, and the real-life betrayal that threatened to destroy their family. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as â€œan uncanny successâ€ and based on meticulous research, this stunning novel illuminates a little-known episode in the celebrated sistersâ€™ glittering bohemian youth among the legendary Bloomsbury Group.

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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 bright, outrageous artistic friends who will grow into legend and come to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. And at the center of this 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 Woolfâ€™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 Vanessaâ€™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 decide if it is finally time to protect her own happiness above all else.

The work of exciting young newcomer Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister exquisitely captures the champagne-heady days of prewar London and the extraordinary lives of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.

Praise for Vanessa and Her Sister

â€œFiction and history merge seamlessly in this dazzling novel.â€â€”Entertainment Weekly

â€œBeing related to Virginia Woolf canâ€™t have been easy. In this delightful novel, Parmar re-imagines the brilliant, fragile writer and her turn-of-the-century bohemian friends. . . . Youâ€™ll be spellbound.â€â€”People

â€œRarely do you encounter a woman who commands as much admiration as does the painter Vanessa Bell in Priya Parmarâ€™s multilayered, subtly shaded novel.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œ[A] gossipy, entertaining historical novel . . . Parmar conjures a devastating fictional portrait.â€â€”USA Today

â€œCaptivating . . . echoes of Austenâ€™s Sense and Sensibility emerge in Parmarâ€™s portrayal.â€â€”Newsday

â€œAn elegant, entertaining novel that brings new life to the Bloomsbury Groupâ€™s intrigues.â€â€”The Dallas Morning News
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 804176396
Model 804176396
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2015-10-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780804176392

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	804176396
Model	804176396
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2015-10-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780804176392

Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel

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