Phyllida Law

This novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Virginia Woolf is direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparation for a party.

A senile old man falls down the stairs and dies. Did he fall or was he pushed? His daughter-in-law, her husband and her friend each tell the story in turn, but their accounts are full of self-deception.