Mrs. Dalloway

In Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel, "Mrs. Dalloway," listeners are immersed in a single June day in London, weaving through the lives of diverse characters. Wealthy society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party while grappling with her past and her old friend Peter Walsh, who has returned from India after being rejected years earlier. The narrative also follows Septimus Warren Smith, a WWI veteran struggling with shell shock, and his devoted wife, Rezia, highlighting their challenges in the aftermath of war. Woolf's exquisite prose brilliantly captures their internal worlds against the backdrop of a city healing from turmoil.