Lolly Willowes
- Author Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Narrator Olivia Darnley
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 6 hours and 3 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Feminism and feminist theory.
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What to expect
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Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.
'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever . . . It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favour of freedom ... tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen McDonald
'Witty, eerie, tender ... her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it' John Updike
'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian
© Sylvia Townsend Warner 1926 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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A great shout of life and individuality.
Guardian -
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.
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
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