VIRGINIA WOOLF IN MANHATTAN

"I have been dragged through time, summoned like a book requisitioned from a distant library," says Virginia Woolf, "resurrected" by modern-day author, Angela Lamb, working on Woolf manuscripts in the New York Public Library. When Virginia materialises among the bookshelves and is promptly evicted, Angela rushes to her rescue, chaperoning her wayward heroine through the modern city. Virginia drinks in the Algonquin Hotel (like Dorothy Parker), finds friends' paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and scams bookstores by selling pristine first editions of her novels, inscribed. Virginia flies with Angela to a conference in Istanbul, makes friends, finds new lovers, and steals the show at an international meeting on?Virginia Woolf. Author Gee playfully asks what Virginia Woolf would make of contemporary literature, love, sex and digital addictions in this delightful book. Are we freer than in Woolf's day? Gee challenges the cliché that great female artists are self-destructive, and engagingly shows that Woolf's ideas on equality, feminism and bisexuality are as vibrant and important as ever. A witty, profound novel about the miraculous possibilities of second chances.

VIRGINIA WOOLF IN MANHATTAN is a witty and profound novel about female rivalry, friendships, mothers and daughters, and the miraculous possibilities of a second chance at life.

VIRGINIA WOOLF IN MANHATTAN has already been optioned for film by legendary screenwriter Andrew Davies (his credits are many—the screenplays for the British House of Cards, the recent tv adaptation of War and Peace, Mr. Selfridge, the Bridget Jones movies, Brideshead Revisited, etc., and he is actively working on the screenplay with Maggie.

Maggie Gee is the author of twelve acclaimed novels, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes), My Cleaner and My Driver, and a memoir, My Animal Life. She is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages and she was awarded an OBE in 2012 for her services to literature.