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Daring Vincents psychological approach is intriguingUSA Today
Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a minds movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration and as it fights before submitting to despair New York Times Book Review
With poetic precision and psychological acuity Norah Vincents Adeline reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the banks of the River Ouse offering us a denouement worthy of its protaganist Channeling Virginia and Leonard Woolf T S and Vivienne Eliot Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington Vincent lays bare their genius and their blind spots their achievements and their failings from the inside out And haunting every page is Adeline the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth which becomes the source of Virginias greatest consolation and her greatest torment
Intellectually and emotionally disarming Adelinea vibrant portrait of Woolf and her social circle the storied Bloomsbury group and a window into the darkness that both inspired and doomed them allis a masterpiece in its own right by one of our most brilliant and daring writers
Skillfully rendered and emotionally insightful Publishers Weekly
An electrifyingly good novel by a master of discomfort New Statesman
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