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Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:1st Oct '20

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Townsend Warner's best-loved and most famous novel, telling the story of a middle-aged woman who gloriously becomes a witch.

'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian

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.

'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever . . . It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favour of freedom ... tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen Macdonald

'Witty, eerie, tender ... her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it' John Updike

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

ISBN: 9780241454886

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 10mm

Weight: 135g

176 pages