The New Dress by Virginia Woolf crossword ' METRO 'A full-throttle adventure

' METRO 'A full-throttle adventure

and a dejected writer whose first serious novel has been declared the funniest book of the year

PhaidonISBN: 9781838667795Extent: 352 pages

'CHARLOTTE HIGGINS

The New Dress by Virginia Woolf crossword ' METRO 'A full-throttle adventureWaking, I cry Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart. In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday objects acquire profound significance: a lump of buried green glass leads to a lifetime of obsession; a mark on the wall prompts a questioning of reality itself; a pale yellow silk dress provokes a painful self reckoning. Beautiful, strange and pioneering, each piece is a small precious stone to be held to