![]() ![]() ![]() The unmarried Stephen sisters – Vanessa is 26, Virginia, 23 – are trying to find their way as artists, although Virginia (who has yet to publish a novel) has long asserted the superiority of the written word over the visual form. With their parents dead, Vanessa and Virginia Stephen, along with their brothers Thoby and Adrian, have somewhat scandalously set up house in unfashionable Gordon Square in London's Bloomsbury district. The novel, based in fact but written with imaginative panache, spans a brief but pivotal early period: 1905-1912. In her gossipy, entertaining historical novel about the British bohemians, Priya Parma conjures a devastating fictional portrait of one of those triangles – the great writer Virginia Woolf ( A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse) her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell and Vanessa's husband, art critic Clive Bell. ![]() The Bloomsbury set, the joke goes, lived in squares and loved in triangles. ![]()
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