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Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her new existence nagged only by the sense of a secret she has yet to discover. That secret - and her vocation - is witchcraft, and with her cat and a pact with the Devil, Lolly Willowes is finally free. An instant and great success on its publication in 1926, Lolly Willowes is Sylvia Townsend Warner's most magical novel. Deliciously wry and inviting, it was her piquant plea that single women find liberty and civility.
| ISBN | 1853815020 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9781853815027
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 210 | | Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Virago Press Ltd | | Series title | Virago Modern Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 07 Oct 1993 | | Width (mm) | 126 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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'One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers' HERMIONE LEE 'A novel as original in its conception as it is subtle and refined in its artistry ... LOLLY WILLOWES retains all of the charm and all of the 'relevance' it owned years ago' TLS 'Witty, eerie, tender' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER 'She has a talent amounting to genius' ROSAMOND LEHMANN  Be the first to write a customer review
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