The group excitedly chatter about the cultural changes unfolding around them as Victorian English society casts off its corset, both literal and symbolic, and takes the first steps into modernity. It’s a remarkable historical moment to capture. Priya presents these eminent literary figures-which include EM Forster and Lytton Strachey-before they were celebrated, back when they were just a group of friends. The novel spans seven years, from 1905 to 1912, in the lives of the artist Vanessa Bell and her remarkable set of friends. In Priya Parmar’s Vanessa and Her Sister however, she is the stormy second sister in a subtle, yet affecting account of sisterhood, friendship and the birth of modernist thinking. When it comes to the Stephen sisters, it is the domineering intellect of Virginia Woolf that history has put in the spotlight.
Priya Parmar’s stirring second novel paints a convincing portrait of a woman struggling to step out from her sister’s shadow.īuy Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar for £7.99
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