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Lolly Willowes
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  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454886
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99
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Lolly Willowes

Formats & editions
Hardback
29 Nov 2022
EBook
1 Oct 2020
Audiobook
15 Apr 2021
Paperback
20 Oct 2020
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Townsend Warner's best-loved and most famous novel, telling the story of a middle-aged woman who gloriously becomes a witch

Lolly Willowes, always so gentle and accommodating, suddenly announces that she is moving, alone, to the countryside. To her overbearing family in London, it is a disturbing and inexplicable act of defiance. But Lolly will not be swayed, and in the depths of the English countryside she gradually discovers not only freedom and independence, but also, unexpectedly, her true vocation: witchcraft.
  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454886
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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.
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Also by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Flint Anchor
After the Death of Don Juan
Mr Fortune's Maggot
The True Heart
The Corner That Held Them
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Praise for Lolly Willowes

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.

Helen McDonald, 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

A great shout of life and individuality.

Justine Jordan, Guardian

My comfort read

Tracey Thorn