Books like To the Lighthouse
A family vacations at a Scottish lighthouse, and the passage of time between two visits reveals everything about love, art, loss, and the impossibility of reaching the things we yearn for.
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The Waves
Six friends speak in turn from childhood to old age in soliloquies that read like prose poetry, while interludes trace the sun's course across a single day over the sea.
Mrs Dalloway
On a June day in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway walks through London buying flowers for her party, while a shell-shocked veteran, Septimus Smith, moves towards his own crisis, and the novel maps their inner lives hour by hour.
The Other Name: Septology I-II
An ageing Norwegian painter reflects on his life, art, and faith in single unbroken sentences across seven books; the first two arrive here.
Near to the Wild Heart
A young woman's interior world unfolds through impressionistic fragments of memory and sensation.
How to Be Both
Two linked stories, of a Renaissance painter in Ferrara and of a grieving teenage girl in present-day Cambridge, can be read in either order, and both ask how we see and who we become.
Rosshalde
On the estate of Rosshalde, the celebrated painter Johann Veraguth lives estranged from his wife, his one joy their small son Pierre, as a friend urges him to leave for India.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, sixty-four and newly home from hospital, owns a painting by her father, a Victorian artist suddenly back in fashion, and her three grown children each have plans for it.
Klingsor's Last Summer
In the last summer of his life, the painter Klingsor, forty-two, burns through drink, love and colour in the villages above an Italian-Swiss lake.
Home
Glory Boughton, thirty-eight, has come home to Gilead, Iowa, to care for her dying father, the old minister, when her brother Jack, the family's prodigal, comes back after twenty years.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A young Irishman moves from Catholic boyhood through intellectual rebellion to artistic exile, constructing himself word by word into the writer he'll become.