The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

Clear, bright, burnished, at once marvellously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry

New York Times

As a reader, as a writer, I constantly return, for the lyricism of it, the melancholy, the humanity

Amy Sackville, Independent

It is so different from any other novel I have read that description is pointless. Suffice to say that it creates an entirely new way of writing about what goes on in the human mind and how those minds interact with one another

Mark Haddon, New Statesman

Clear, bright, burnished, at once marvellously accurate and subtly connotative. The pure, delicate sensibility found in this language and the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry

New York Times

As a reader, as a writer, I constantly return, for the lyricism of it, the melancholy, the humanity

Amy Sackville, Independent