The Hours

'Cunningham has found an American tone which is exhiiaratingly modern - tense, tender and complete!/ without strain'
David Hare, Guardian

In I 920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend.

The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf s Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women.

'Engrossing, imaginative and humane. For those familiar with Mrs Dalloway, the surprise is at Cunningham's deftness and ingenuity'
Richard Francis, Observer

'A book which heightens the perception of the reader. Cunningham's craftsmanship is overwhelming'
Robert Farren, Sunday Independent

'A sensitive marriage of intelligence, integrity and finely textured emotions' Sunday Times

'An absorbingly moving triptych beautifully crafted across three time frames - from Woolf's 1920s Richmond to 1990s Manhattan'
Guardian