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Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Wednesday 13 January at 12 noon
Join us on Zoom to discuss this delicious classic. The Zoom link will be emailed out to attendees the day before.
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.
‘A great should of life and individuality… an act of defiance that gladdens the soul.’ – The Guardian
‘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 Macdonald
‘Witty, eerie, tender… her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it.’ – John Updike
