Townsend Warner's best-loved and most famous novel, telling the story of a middle-aged woman who gloriously becomes a witch.
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr Fortune's Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them and The Flint Anchor.
A great shout of life and individuality.
*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
*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*
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