“Lovely though The Waves was, The Years goes far beyond and beyond it—expressing Woolf’s purpose in the novel more richly than it has ever been done before.”

“Inspired throughout—a brilliant fantasia of all time’s problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion.”

“It would be impossible to
overpraise the beauty of Mrs. Woolf’s prose in The Years. There is, to my mind, an immense advance from the wild,
disjoined poetry of Orlando or Flush, a greater gravity, a ripeness and
richness and warmth in the descriptive passages which she has achieved nowhere
else…The Years is the finest novel
she has ever written.”

“An astonishing editorial
achievement.”

“Finty Williams’s bright, lively
voice immediately engages listeners in Virginia Woolf’s 1937 novel. Beginning
in 1880, the story chronicles fifty years in the life of the Pargiter family
yet doesn’t actually sustain a narrative line. It is more a series of lively
vignettes, significant events, memories, and sensations. Of course, Woolf’s
feminism and social consciousness are ever present, but even more prevalent in
this work is her awareness of the remorseless passage of time. While the novel
is fascinating as much for its omissions as for its artful prose and character
sketches, it is Finty Williams’s performance, her intensity and believable
characterizations, that will keep listeners glued to their headsets.”