Lolly Willowes

"The story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances." —The New York Times Book Review

In her acclaimed debut novel, the twentieth-century English writer "moves with somber confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it. This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to...