THE WITCHY FEMINIST CLASSIC: The “beautifully written… extraordinary” story of an English spinster who rejects the life society has given her - and becomes a witch instead (Helen McDonald, New York Times Book Review).
Witty, eerie, tender.
- John Updike
In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster’s struggle to break away from her controlling family - a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange.
Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of 20th-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.