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Imagine if Virginia Woolf's sister had kept a diary? For fans of The Paris Partner and Loving Frank comes a spellbinding new storyline of the inseparable connection between Virginia and her sister, the gifted painter Vanessa Bell, and the real-life betrayal that threatened to damage their family. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "an uncanny success" and predicated on meticulous research, this stunning novel illuminates a little-known show in the celebrated sisters' glittering bohemian youth among the renowned Bloomsbury Group. London, 1905: The town is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their years as a child home and going for a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they gather a glittering circle of bright, outrageous creative friends who will grow into star and come to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. With the center of the charmed circle will be the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and Virginia, the copy writer. Each person in the group will continue to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell hasn't sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's e book review has just been rejected by The Times. Lytton Strachey hasn't printed anything. E. M. Forster has completed his first novel but will not like the name. Leonard Woolf continues to be a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is searching for a job. Together, this dazzling coterie of designers and intellectuals throw away convention and adopt the wild liberty of being young, one bohemians in London. But the scenery shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister seems dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative, and amazing, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness.
