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  • Published: 15 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241524824
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Lolly Willowes




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: 15 April 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241524824
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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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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