VANESSA AND HER SISTER

In February, our book club will be reading Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar.  This novel looks into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group.  Vanessa and Her Sister was very well reviewed upon its release, receiving starred reviews in both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus.

There are many books available that use a famous figure as the focal point of their stories.  Here are some of the books you can find at the Library that use authors as the main and/or secondary characters.







Adeline by Norah Vincent (Virginia Woolf)
Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers (Vanessa Bell & Virginia Woolf)
Dark Aemilia by Sally O'Reilly (Aemilia Bassano & William Shakespeare)
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (Ernest Hemingway)
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler (Zelda & F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Virginia Woolf)
Jane Austen's First Love by Syrie James (Jane Austen)
Daphne by Justine Picardie (Daphne Du Maurier)
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan (Robert Louis Stevenson)

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