![]() ![]() Woolf uses several recurring motifs throughout the novel, the sky, stars the River Thames and walking – especially through London recur time and again. The structure of the novel and the narrative are tighter – more so even, I think than her first novel, which had a more meandering quality at times. ![]() The prose is less poetic than To the Lighthouse for example and Orlando which I read last year. Night and Day is a slightly longer novel than I associate with Woolf, I confess on a busy tiring week it took me the whole week to read. I enjoyed it enormously – it isn’t a difficult read, and these were characters I liked spending time with. Although a little over four hundred pages it is a novel with a very simple plot – it is however, the complex, changing relationships between the central characters, which give the novel its depth. The narrative, like that of The Voyage Out – which I read last year – is much more conventional than her later modernist novels To the Lighthouse, and Mrs Dalloway that I read in January. ![]() ![]() Night and Day – Virginia Woolf’s second novel is a social comedy and a love story but also a subtle examination of women’s roles. “I’ve seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.” ![]()
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