"[The book] I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is "Lolly Willowes," the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances. It completely blindsided me: Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness." - Helen Macdonald in The New York Times Book Review's "By the Book."
In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to
break way from her controlling family-a classic story that she treats with cool feminist
intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is
one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of twentieth-century literature,
a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that
anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette
Winterson.
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