Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf Audiobook

Quotes

• “Daring…[Vincent’s] psychological approach is intriguing.”

  — USA Today

• Woolf's ultimate acceptance, or actually embrace, of her fate is detailed meticulously in the endgame conversation between the soul-sick, world-weary author and the internist from whom her desperate husband, Leonard, has sought help.

  — Kirkus

• “Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a mind’s movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration and as it fights before submitting to despair.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• "[An] electrifyingly good novel….by a master of discomfort.”

  — New Statesman

• "Adeline is a bold portrait of Virginia Woolf from her conception of To the Lighthouse in 1925 to her suicide in 1941…The reader comes to understand Virginia’s complex artistic process and her lifelong struggle with mental illness.”

  — Historical Novel Society

• “Skillfully rendered and emotionally insightful.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Woolf’s ultimate acceptance, or actual embrace, of her fate is detailed meticulously in the endgame conversation between the soul-sick, world-weary author and the internist from whom her desperate husband, Leonard, has sought help.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “In this vivid, deeply moving novel, Vincent brings us beyond the world of legend directly into the passions, the struggles, the ambitions, and finally the genius that is Virginia Woolf.”

  — Alison Smith, author of Name All the Animals

• "[A]n entirely fresh reading of Woolf’s work, brought alive by a writer of considerable imagination, insight, and skill.”

  — Marya Hornbacher, author of Wasted and Madness