Surrounded by friends and family, the Ramsays mostly spend their summers at their summerhouse at the Isle of Skye. One year the family plans to go to the island s lighthouse but the visit does not happen. Time changes and so does their world. Mrs Ramsay dies. Two out of eight children also die. The remaining Ramsays visit the Isle after ten years and make the long postponed visit to the lighthouse.

To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf s magnum opus. Reminiscent of her childhood memories it explores the intricacies of the nature of relationships in childhood and adult life and the other complexities of life. Together with Mrs. Dalloway it is ranked among the top hundred English novels of the twentieth century

About the Author

One of the leading British writers and intellectuals of the twentieth century Virginia Woolf was born in London on 25 January 1882. She began publishing her work to both general and critical acclaim in her early twenties and became associated with Bloomsbury Circle, an influential group of English modernist writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in early twentieth century. Best remembered for the lyrical quality of her prose Woolf wrote many novels and essays all bearing the modernist trends of the Circle. Her works have been translated in over 50 languages around the world. However, she was not very lucky in health matters and suffered from the bouts of mental illness throughout her life. She perished by drowning during one such attack on 28 March 1941.